Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devote a cover story [Aug. 18] to the robber baron of our national pastime? The way Charlie Finley can save baseball...
...told investigators he is "sure" that one of his abductors was a woman. He recalls being pushed into the back seat of a car when the kidnapers seized him outside the unoccupied home of his mother, Ann Loeb Bronfman, in suburban Purchase, N.Y., in the early morning hours of Aug. 9. He is certain that Lynch sat beside him on the seat, and he believes a third person was seated next to Lynch. Bronfman thinks that it was a woman because at one point, the car stopped, someone got out, and he heard the rap of high-heeled shoes...
...Northern Ireland. Six years ago this month, a company of British soldiers was rushed into Londonderry to put down bloody riots that raged out of control after Protestant Ulstermen had staged their traditional Apprentice Boys of Deny Parade; the occasion commemorates a group of young apprentices who, on Aug. 12, 1689, closed the city gates and prevented Londonderry's fall to the troops of the exiled Catholic King James II. During the 1969 march, taunts were traded with Catholics from the Bogside area that adjoins the parade route, and a pitched battle was soon under way, leaving 175 wounded...
...Bangladesh had its massacre," said a senior Western diplomat in Dacca, the capital, last week. "It still awaits its coup." The bloody upheaval that ended the government, and the life, of Sheik Mujibur Rahman two weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 25) was the work of about a dozen young officers (most of them majors). According to the same diplomat, "They are too powerful to be arrested but not powerful enough to run the country...
Apparently, the officers who overthrew Mujib timed their coup for Aug. 15, the anniversary of Indian independence. They figured that the New Delhi government would be preoccupied that day-"a sort of Yom Kippur War situation," as a Western diplomat put it. The coup was over so quickly that New Delhi had no time to respond militarily. Later, however, when New Delhi warned that it could not "remain unaffected by these political developments in a neighboring country," the new rulers of Bangladesh appealed to India for "friendship and cooperation...