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Amri, enraged by such impertinence, demanded identification, and Harazi made the fatal mistake of giving his name and address. Minutes later, soldiers poured into his shop and dragged him to general military headquarters. There, as Amri watched, guardsmen beat him with iron rods. Harazi pleaded for mercy to no avail. When the guardsmen refused Amri's order to kill Harazi, said reports from San'a, the Premier picked up a gun himself and shot the shopkeeper in the head...
Meyer struts his usual cinematic stunts (blisteringly fast cutting) and visual diversions (actresses constructed like goodyear blimps), but to little avail. The leading roles are portrayed by unknowns who are likely to remain so,and the movie mostly takes place in the courtroom instead of the bedroom,an unhappy change of venue for a director like Meyer...
Last Chance. To no avail. The voters turned down the young (30) Popular Unity candidate, and handed the Valparaiso seat to middle-reading Dr. Oscar Marín, 62, a physician. Marín campaigned on the line that "this may be the last chance for the people to say to Dr. Allende that we want social changes, but with personal freedom and without Marxist sectarianism." Marín's margin-4,637 votes in a total of 278,263 -showed the power of the Chilean women's vote, which tends to be conservative. As one of Allende...
Beleaguered New Hampshire officials tried a telegram protest again, but to no avail. So they moved their primary up a week. New Hampshire's irritation is rooted in more than tradition. National publicity and the huge sums spent by candidates can be economic adrenaline to a state. During the 1968 primary, candidates spent $10 million in New Hampshire...
...neither kept costs down nor provided any guarantee against shortages. Washington should let in some more oil from the rest of the world. It should do this either by liberalizing quotas or replacing them with a less restrictive tariff system, as a Nixon-appointed task force recommended-to no avail-a year ago. Such a move would have to be coupled with the building of a domestic reserve supply to guard against a Mideast shutoff. To do that, the import task force suggested storing domestically produced oil in salt domes or steel tanks. Another alternative would be to develop fields...