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...civil libertarians, smut peddlers and bluestockings alike, last year's tough anti-obscenity rulings have had relatively little effect. The first few months after the Miller decision did see a rash of hasslings, raids, busts and prosecutions in Los Angeles, Tulsa, New Orleans, Tampa, Montgomery, New York, Bangor, Detroit, Chicago, Kankakee and elsewhere. Books were quietly shelved in many libraries and even burned (32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five) in Drake, N. Dak. But, by and large, even smutty books and magazines still sold; the X-rated movies still showed. Says Barney Rossett, head of erotically...
...abandoned truck exploded, shattering a large part of Royal Avenue, Belfast's main shopping thoroughfare. What particularly annoyed shopkeepers was that the Provos had twice within three weeks slipped through military checkpoints to plant smaller bombs in the same area. Later, in the seaside resort town of Bangor, Proves eluded door guards to set off fire bombs in four stores, causing at least $12 million in damages. Bombs planted in cars also went off in Lisburn and Antrim, leaving sections of these towns looking like World War II battlegrounds...
...turned out that Abbie Hoffman was on board with his two-year-old son america, and he had to be back in the States the next day for his cocaine trial. So the DC 8 headed for Maine and a lobster dinner. As the jet approached Bangor, a confused tower controller radioed: "Freelandia? Uh, who owns this plane?" The pilot replied confidently: "We do." No further comment...
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Bill Cohen is a 33-year-old freshman Congressman from Maine's second district. A liberal Republican and formerly the mayor of Bangor, he upset his opponent in the 1972 elections after walking 600 miles through Maine in an effort to meet the voters and acquire the grass-roots support necessary in a district the size of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island combined...