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...RISING TORRENT of anti-ATF rhetoric has nurtured the perception that ATF agents are justifiable targets for heckling, if not outright assassination, an attitude that Ron Noble, Under Secretary of the Treasury for enforcement, likens to the 1960s protest ethos that branded all police officers "pigs." ATF's opponents, he says, don't loathe the bureau itself, just the laws it must enforce. "So what do you do?" he asks. "You attack an agency that not very many people know a lot about." Says a supervisory agent: "If you can't get the laws overturned, you pound on the agents...
Peretz, a Harvard Social Studies lecturer whowas Gore's tutor at Harvard in the late 1960s, iswell known for his close ties to the vicepresident...
...served on Harvard's Board of Freshman Advisers and the Educational Policy Committee. In the 1960s, he chaired a committee to improve the Freshman Seminar Program...
...known as detente was in full flow, and high overhead the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft were locked in an orbital tango. Their commanders reached through the spaceships' air locks for a symbolic handshake, amid much talk that the superpowers were going to move from the space race of the 1960s to a new era of space cooperation. Despite efforts in that direction, little availed, and shortly after the declaration of martial law in Poland in 1981 the joint space agreements were allowed to lapse...
DIED. AL HANSEN, 67, 1960s visual artist who pioneered the avant-garde fusion of multimedia, music, homemade movies and staged events known as "happenings"; of a heart attack; in Cologne, Germany...