Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the abduction, the kidnapers made six demands in a letter that was anonymously left at a police station. It was signed Kommando Siegfried Hausner, R.A.F.-referring to a terrorist who lied after a 1975 attack on the West German embassy in Stockholm. The initials stand for the now familiar Red Army Faction, which had killed both Buback and Ponto. The kidnapers' message warned that Schleyer would be killed unless eleven terrorists were released from German prisons, each given 100,000 deutsche marks (about $43,000), and flown out of the country. Among the eleven: Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl...
Even more heretical are clandestine political pamphlets that attack Mao's successor. One anonymous booklet called "A Road to Proletarian Opposition-or to Rightist Surrender?" accuses Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his "clique" of arresting Mao's widow Chiang Ch'ing and her "Gang of Four" in order to "grab power with great haste." The booklet also charges the new regime-insult of insults-with slandering the memory of the late Great Helmsman...
Strip away all the topical trappings, however, and you'll find a Dixie rehash of Barney Miller, the program that just happens to precede this one on ABC's Thursday lineup. Carter Country is shrewdly produced too. The cast is good, and the one-liners attack all races and creeds alike. The show does not deserve to be a hit, but, barring a sudden drop in its eponym's fortunes, it is likely to be around for more than one term...
...officials are considering a much more basic attack on some of the regulatory snarls in which housing is enmeshed. Secretary Harris talks of reforming some of HUD'S own rules, which she calls "small regulatory requirements that can consume days?during which builders cannot build but during which their interest costs must nevertheless be paid." She also sees no reason why both HUD and one or sometimes several state or local jurisdictions must at times make separate studies to determine whether environmental rules are being met. Asks Harris: "Why can't we accept their studies or they accept ours...
...separate compartments. The narrative sleights of hand in these novels could be explicated in the classroom; the books could also be enjoyed-for their tight plotting and pervasive eroticism-straight off the drugstore rack. Daniel Martin is altogether more austere; its story cannot be pried loose from its philosophical attack on one of the modern age's sacred tenets-"that only a tragic, absurdist, black-comic view...of human destiny could be counted as truly representative and 'serious...