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...threatened freedoms of liberal democracy. Those with a higher vision had become the freaks; the inside belonged to Pat Moynihan and defenders of liberal democracy like the elderly woman who angrily mounted the steps of Widener after the AHA ceremony to try to knock down the protesters' bedsheet banner that read, "Moynihan Preaches Democracy But Supports Dictatorships...
...billion in waste, involves top navy officers responsible for military-spending programs. Rear Admiral Ramzi Abass Attaei, once commander of the Iranian navy, has been broken to captain. Other high-ranking officers have been jailed, and one navy budget officer committed suicide in prison-reportedly by swallowing a bedsheet...
Outside the White House, some 250 pickets from George Washington University lofted a bedsheet with the words PROMISE ME PARDON AND I'LL MAKE YOU PRESIDENT?a reference to a widespread cynical suspicion that Nixon as President had exacted a pledge of a pardon from Ford before naming him Vice President and putting him in the line of succession...
...demonstrators must have wrenched the hundreds of people who were serious about hearing the candidate. The demonstrators had come early and taken the seats immediately surrounding the Bandstand, and that inner ring looked like the floor of the Democratic Convention, a sea of signs. The biggest was a bedsheet ten feet square that had been hoisted aloft right opposite the candidate's podium and read George Wallace Your Friendly Fascist...
...four-hour journey took eight hours. In one small town along the tracks, Colonia, family held up a bedsheet with the words "We'll miss you Bobby" scratched upon it. In Menuchen, an elderly Negre fell on his knees touching the ground with his forehead and stretched out his arms, hat in hand, toward the train. Everywhere, men and women pressed their fists to their mouths, their faces hard with grief...