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...have done nothing for which any administration need apologize." Does President Carter fail to recall that in 1953, the popular government of Dr. Mossadegh was overthrown in a bloody coup d'etat orchestrated by the American administration through the Central Intelligence Agency? Has he forgotten that on June 5th, 1962, more than 10,000 innocent people were shot to death by the American-advised Iranian army? Does he not remember congratulating the Shah on the morning after Black Friday, September 8th, 1977, when the Shah's army shot down 5,000 unarmed demonstrators...
Madman Mike Coglin's consecutive triple in the 200 free (2nd), 50 free (1st) and 200 individual medley (5th) was almost as brutal...
...knows exactly when the New World's Indians first began working gold, but goldsmiths were apparently plying their trade in the Americas well before the time of Christ. By the 5th century A.D., there were whole towns of gold-workers. When the Spaniards finally arrived, the Indians had mastered all the goldworking techniques, including "lost wax" casting, known in the Old World...
Funeral ornaments dating back to the Old Silla dynasty (5th-6th century A.D.) display a barbaric splendor never before found in East Asia. Discovered amidst a stash of weapons and earthenware, a crown glitters with spangles of gold and jade that adorn its antler-like shafts. This animal symbolism, some historians believe, attests to the shamanistic beliefs of the early Koreans and suggests that they had more in common with the nomadic horsemen of the Siberian steppes than with their Chinese neighbors...
...Petite Finals: Four crews placing 4th and 5th in Heats...