Word: augustas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final approach to Cairo, the demolition expert asked Stewardess Augusta Schneider for some matches. Handing him a pack, she cautioned as a good stewardess should: "You can't smoke now. We are about to land." The guerrilla had no intention of smoking. Instead, while the giant Clipper was still 100 feet off the ground, he lit the fuse to his explosives. As the fuse began to burn, the hijackers told the passengers: "You have eight minutes." But Captain Priddy, captive in his cockpit, knew none of this. Landing in early-morning blackness at an unfamiliar airport, he might have elected...
...hearing than before. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, for example, denounced the "Gestapo" from Washington and urged parents to ignore their children's transfers to desegregated schools. He got some followers in Stockbridge, but authorities there insisted that the children attend their assigned schools. Attempted white boycotts in Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Va., failed...
...Augusta, 170 miles away, the same depressing feeling moved Thales Elliott, a black Army veteran of 17 years who had lost both his legs in Viet Nam, to direct confrontation. Elliott, head of his P.T.A., was watching an antibusing demonstration at the black school across the street from his home in a middleclass, modern, black housing neighborhood. It was total-integration day, and seven protesting white parents stood at the base of the flagpole urging a boycott. "I just had enough," Elliott said. "So I put on my wooden legs, got in my car and drove over there." Facing...
...Poet Allen Ginsberg to appear with Graham in the religious service, a Washington Monument painted in washable psychedelic colors. The left had more serious requests as well. A radical group, headed by Rennie Davis, one of the Chicago Seven defendants, wanted runners heading from Kent State in Ohio, and Augusta, Ga., where students and blacks were slain, to match the flag-bearing runners heading to Washington from Philadelphia, Valley Forge and Williamsburg, Va., as part of the celebration. From the Rev. Douglas Moore, leader of Washington's Black United Front, came an attack on the rally as a "white...
...Blacks in the South, for their part, are arriving at a level of political consciousness ominously parallel to that of Northern ghetto blacks a few years ago, when the era of the big riots began. In mid-May, six blacks died of gunshot wounds during a fiery night in Augusta, Ga., that brought back sickening memories of Watts and Newark. Atlanta, for the moment, is more concerned with the Peachtree Street community of hippies than it is with blacks...