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...after hour, for three long days last week, the mourners, eventually 300,000 in all, filed past his glass-covered coffin at the Aquino family home in a suburb of Manila. What they saw was not pretty. Aquino's body had been embalmed, but the marks of the assassin's bullet were still horribly visible on his face. When the body was moved to a nearby church, where it would lie in state until Saturday, some 30,000 people joined the procession, chanting, "Ninoy! Ninoy!" and, in scattered instances, "Himagsikan!" (Revolution...
...small van pulled up beside him. A man described by witnesses as tall, young and well dressed stepped out and coolly fired four shots through the open window of Schaufelberger's car. His auto lurched forward, crashing against a parked car. Urging bystanders to remain calm, the assassin casually reached into the Maverick and turned off the ignition; then he and his accomplices drove off in their van. Schaufelberger, who had been hit in the head with three small-caliber bullets, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. He thus became the first American serviceman killed...
...heard of Allard Lowenstein, and that is a shame. A leader of the young and an activist for peaceful change, Lowenstein was rarely out of the headlines during the 60s and 70s for his untiring captaincy of liberal causes. In 1980, at 51 he was the victim of an assassin's bullet. But today Lowenstein is in danger of becoming an unsung hero--one of the many who touched the pages of history but, holding no major office, became, little more than footnotes in political textbooks. Allard Lowenstein should not be relegated to a footnote--especially not by the young...
...average age of our 39 Presidents when they took office is 55. The youngest was Theodore Roosevelt, who made it at 42, thanks to an assassin. John Kennedy, at 43, was the youngest elected President. The oldest is Reagan. The sample is too small to support a valid statistical trend. Yet a glance at this century's Chief Executives and their Inaugural ages suggests that the presidency is growing grayer (unless Reagan passes along the secret of his Hollywood hair): Theodore Roosevelt, 42; Taft, 51; Wilson, 56; Harding, 55; Coolidge, 51; Hoover, 54; Franklin Roosevelt, 51; Truman, 60; Eisenhower...
Current research has focused on the use of tools by animals as a signal of intelligence. Chimpanzees, for example, get at termites by jabbing their nests with twigs. The assassin bug of South America, also a termite fancier, approaches its prey by gluing nest material on its back to serve as camouflage. But, says Beck, the bug's behavior is probably "innate or genetically prewired." Another scientific index is the ability of animals to transmit information through so-called language behavior. Bees, foraging for pollen, return to the hive and perform an intricate figure-eight dance...