Word: aprils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aldo Moro is being treated scrupulously . . . The release of the prisoner can be considered only in connection with the liberation of Communist prisoners. The D.C. and its government have 48 hours to respond starting at 3 p.m. on April 20 . . . or we will carry out the sentence handed down by the People's Tribunal. -Red Brigades Communiqué No. 7 April...
...major product of the reporters' work, a four-part series in April 1977, is full of sickening examples of beatings and harassment by the police of suspects, their friends and relatives. Often the victims had to be hospitalized for injuries sustained during interrogation at the Roundhouse, Philadelphia's futuristic police headquarters. In one such case recounted by the Inquirer, police raided a house without a search warrant, arrested a murder suspect without an arrest warrant, and beat four members of his family...
That sardonic explanation is as sound as any for the explosion of optimism that sent the long depressed stock market kiting more than 55 points in six trading days through last Thursday. The wild rally that started April 13 hit a peak of frenzy at the start of last week: on Monday, April 17, as whoops and cries echoed through the New York Stock Exchange and floor traders tossed torn-up paper in the air to celebrate, an unbelievable 63.5 million shares changed hands, and the Dow Jones industrial average spurted almost 15 points. Prices stumbled a bit the next...
...ceiling, zero visibility" landings are not possible. Aviation experts agree, though, that in a decade or two all major airports will be served by standardized electronic wizardry that will make landings in the thickest fog as safe and happy as the touchdown of a Piper Cub on a balmy April day. The new device, known as the Microwave Landing System (MLS) is also expected to help unsnarl the aerial traffic that often clogs the skies above major airports today...
...must comment on Susan Esser's letter to the editors (April 20) in which she states that "Harvard must place the academic goals of the University above all other considerations"' on the grounds that "partisan agitation on the part of undergraduates is secondary to the achievement of a deeper understanding of ethics, science and esthetics." Furthermore Ms. Esser writes that "by teaching students how such goals [morality, truth and beauty] are more more important that profit and power, Harvard guarantees that its students will never repeat the criminal greed of U.S. corporations now in South Africa...