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...SELECTIVE Service System (SSS), the agency that wants to register you and me for the draft resides in a bazooka-ammo red brick building near Chinatown in the nation's capitol. Actually, the SSS only takes up about three-quarters of the building's fifth floor, but from all of the yelling out in the streets, you'd think these people owned half the town...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Administering Armageddon | 4/3/1980 | See Source »

...hard rock, LSD and "un-Confucian sexual attitudes" among its youth, places none other than Richard Nixon at the helm in order to crush "The Great Trip Forward" with "The Great Clamp Downward: And tension persists in that area of the world: "4/4/83--In pre-emptive strikes on Hanoi ammo dumps, the Chinese dropped an estimated 40,000 tons of people on Vietnamese bombs...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Great Expectations | 12/1/1979 | See Source »

Once again, troops were on the move in the Middle East?and this time, right in the middle of peace negotiations. All one night and through the next day last week, tanks, artillery and ammo carriers rumbled into position along Israel's mountainous border with Lebanon, a jagged 62-mile line that runs from the Mediterranean to the foothills of Mount Herman. Within 48 hours the Israeli forces, some 10,000 in all, were ready to move, and missile boats were poised to strike at Lebanese ports. Then, after a 24-hour delay caused by rain and heavy clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel Severs the Arm | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Frank Sowinski and Bob Roma gunned for 50 points to provide Princeton's ammo, but with Harvard shooting only 45 per cent from the foul line in a game marked by widespread fouling, the Crimson did not have much of a chance...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Tiger Cagers Break Loose, Tame Crimson, 79-65 | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

...revolutionary. There was the testimony of Zigurd Berzins, the electronics technician who said he saw Patty retrieve two dropped ammunition clips and one or two cartridges for her carbine as she entered the Hibernia Bank-an act that conflicted with her testimony that she was carrying no live ammo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Full Circle for Patty | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

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