Word: attacker
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...former defensive tackle for East Los Angeles College, Jaramillo enlisted in the Army because he "wanted some action." He has had plenty. He was awarded a Purple Heart and has been recommended for a Bronze Star for his leadership and courage during a mortar attack on his unit. He shrugs off the recognition: "I couldn't use no medals. Now if it were beer or money, O.K. But what's a medal gonna give...
United Front. Aware that the trend of public sentiment is toward the bill, the Vatican in its eleventh battle against a divorce law is making less of a direct attack. In a shrewd maneuver, the church and pro-Vatican Christian Democrats have mounted a campaign largely aimed at wives. "Pay attention," says a street poster. "If the divorce law passes, your husband, when he happens to lose his head over a girl younger than you, can leave the house, ask for a separation and after five years move on to a new marriage whether you like...
When the Paraguayan finished, Ceausescu broke in to issue a blunt, 500-word warning that the discussion was taking an unwelcome and unwise turn. "To our regret, in today's speech by the representative of the Communist Party of Paraguay, attacks and condemnations were included against one party that is not attending the conference. We consider that if other par ties follow this procedure, this will lead to a course fraught with danger for the success of our conference," he said. Undeterred, Polish First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka resumed the Soviet-orchestrated attack on the Chinese: "The principles of internationalism have...
Died. James P. Warburg, 72, multimillionaire financier and author of dozens of books on U.S. foreign policy (Peace in Our Time?, 1940; The West in Crisis, 1959); of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn. Wealthy by birth, well placed in banking, Warburg had every reason to support the established order. Instead, he became an articulate advocate of new, often radical political maneuvers, assailing such elements of U.S. policy as the refusal to seat Communist China in the U.N., and America's stress on military rather than socioeconomic solutions to the cold...
...brokerage firms that are members of the exchange have not yet cleaned up the back-office paperwork mess that since last June has kept the Big Board from conducting a normal 271-hour trading week. In addition, commission rates that member brokers charge to stock traders are under attack by the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and institutional investors. All of them contend that the cuts made in some rates last December did not go far enough. Finally, some member firms are clamoring for repeal of an exchange rule that prevents them from raising needed capital by selling...