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...first time in months, and restaurants began to fill up again in the evenings. Some city dwellers looked far trimmer than usual, simply because they no longer packed pistols inside their coats or waistbands. Ankara's English-language Turkish Daily News, reflecting the prevailing mood, announced in a banner headline: LIFE BACK TO NORMAL THROUGHOUT TURKEY...
...stead when Marcos declared martial law. While most leaders incarcerated by Marcos in 1972 eventually were released, Aquino remained in jail. He was charged with involvement with communists and guerillas, and convicted by a military tribunal. His more likely crime was his candidacy for president under the Liberal Party banner...
Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard, climbs out of his silver Caddy and, clad in a blue business suit, strides to the platform. Backed by an American flag and a Klan banner, surrounded by hoods (literal use), he launches into his speech. Starting slowly, he declares, "I'm a segregationist, and I will die a segregationist." Warming to his task, this former electrical contractor explains that mixing the races will never work because "you cannot make unequal people equal." His philosophical cards on the table, Wilkinson's job becomes easier--his only remaining task is to suggest the future course of public...
...regular River City-style salute by the trombones of the Landon Middle School band in Topeka. The Governor still maintains a high degree of horse sense with daily rides on Red, his 27-year-old Morgan. "I'm in good shape," reports Landon, who carried the G.O.P. banner during the ill-fated campaign against F.D.R. in 1936, "though I can't get in and out of the saddle without help." Colonel Harland Sanders, 90, whose birthday fete took place at his old Kentucky home town of Louisville, prefers to do most of his traveling by air. Though...
...Polish situation intriguing. Describing the high emotion and palpable patriotism of the strike settlement signing in Gdansk, he says: "To grasp its improbability, try to imagine Attorney General John Mitchell and Antiwar Organizer Jerry Rubin after the November 1969 march on Washington standing together and singing the Star-Spangled Banner...