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Once again, however, the U.S.W's local union chieftains said no. At week's end, after more than four hours of heated closed-door debate, they voted the plan down, 231 to 141. Said McBride afterward: "I am disappointed, obviously. I would have preferred a settlement. But the wisdom of the majority is what we go by. It was a judgment call...
...like to get into the game," McEvoy said afterward. "I just like to get a hold on the puck and do something with it to get myself involved in the play...
Prime was arrested last April for a sex offense involving a 14-year-old girl. Shortly afterward, his wife Rhona discovered spying equipment under a bed and reported it to the police. Eventually, Prime confessed to being both a spy and a sex offender. During the two-hour trial at London's historic Old Bailey, Lord Lane sentenced Prime to an additional three years in prison for molesting three young girls. Said Lane: "Your ruthlessness is demonstrated not only by what you did with this country's secrets but by what you did to those girls. You made...
...rebel attack, reportedly closed off both ends with tanks and trapped uncounted victims inside. Some burned to death; others were killed by smoke and by carbon monoxide escaping from vehicles whose drivers kept their engines idling to stay warm in the freezing cold. The devastation was so great that afterward six trucks laden with bodies, mostly Soviet troops, reportedly were driven away from the tunnel...
When John Kennedy demanded that Nikita Khrushchev remove Soviet missiles from Cuba in 1962, the American President was carrying a big stick: roughly a 10-to-1 superiority over the U.S.S.R. in nuclear weaponry. At the time, and for years afterward, it was commonly accepted in both Moscow and Washington that the overwhelming U.S. nuclear advantage had enabled Kennedy to go to the brink and force Khrushchev to back down. The episode humiliated the Soviet leadership and contributed to Khrushchev's downfall two years later. Leonid Brezhnev and his comrades were determined that the Soviet Union catch...