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...only reported bloodshed occurred in the partly completed capital, Abuja. When soldiers went to the official residence to arrest President Shagari, their commander, Brigadier Ibrahim Bako,.was shot dead by a bodyguard. Shortly afterward, Shagari surrendered and was taken into custody. The junta subsequently denied early reports that he had been brought to Lagos in handcuffs...
Even Thatcher's sturdy friendship with Ronald Reagan suffered strains when American troops invaded Grenada, a Commonwealth member. The Prime Minister asked the President by telephone not to go through with the operation; afterward, she uttered her harshest words yet about the U.S. Said Thatcher: "If you are going to pronounce a new law that wherever Communism reigns against the will of the people the United States shall enter, then we are going to have some really terrible wars." She opposed U.S. reprisal attacks in Lebanon, where Britain had contributed 100 men to the 6,000-member Multi-National...
When Nitze sought new negotiating instructions that would permit him to explore compromises other than the zero option, the State Department's Howe turned him down flat. Shortly afterward, Nitze exclaimed to one of Howe's deputies, "Good Lord, man! Don't you know the house is burning down? Do you want to wait until it burns to the ground before you do anything?" Nitze was concerned about what he saw as the steady erosion of the European consensus on the need for deployment, particularly in West Germany...
...20th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death, the late President's close-knit clan gathered for a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Afterward, the family was joined by a larger group, 500 of J.F.K.'s former colleagues and friends at an invitation-only memorial Mass at his old parish church in Washington's Georgetown. Prominent among the absentees was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 54, who spent the day in Hyannisport, Mass., with the President's mother, Rose, 93. Also missing: John Kennedy Jr., 23, who is studying in India. Among those at the site...
Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 in India, where his father Richard worked as a civil servant for the British Empire. Not long afterward, Eric's mother took him and his older sister Marjorie back to England, a common domestic arrangement at the time; India was fine as a place for husbands to work, but children were to be brought up in the homeland. Richard Blair joined his family during his infrequent leaves. A younger sister Avril was born when Eric was five...