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...Rhodesian athletes were desolated by the decision. Perhaps the bitterest was Bernard Dzoma, 31, a black long-distance runner from Salisbury who has twice trained for the Olympics. In 1968 he and his teammates were thwarted from participating in the Mexico City games because Mexico did not recognize Rhodesian passports. This year, a full week after he had arrived at the Olympic Village, Dzoma learned he would not run. "All I can say is that I'm at my end," he said. "I shall never enter any race again...
Trotsky had special glands for invective, reserving the bitterest for liberals who did not share his theories of revolution. He emerges as a superrationalist technician to whom history was "an enormous machine in the service of our ideals." But he also felt he had unique intuitive powers...
Thus, 13 days after it began, the briefest but bitterest of the wars between India and Pakistan* came to an end. The surrender also marked the end of the nine-month-old civil war between East and West Pakistan. Next day Pakistan's President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan reluctantly accepted India's cease-fire on the western border. It was a complete and humiliating defeat. The war stripped Pakistan of more than half of its population and, with nearly one-third of its army in captivity, clearly established India's military dominance of the subcontinent...
...issue of law and order which inspired the bitterest the Mayor and the Police Department had been bad ever since the Glenville riots when, after several policemen had been killed, stokes ordered all patrolmen out of the area. The move was successful in preventing more deaths, but the wholesale looting that followed the withdrawal of law enforcement officials angered many whites. The deep-seated antipathy between white policemen and blacks which has now become the norm was increased. During the 1969 election non-uniformed uninformed policemen with guns dangling openly at their sides served as challengers at the polls...
...major financial backer in the Mayor's previous campaigns. All indications pointed to a runaway victory for Garofoli in an election to be decided by white Democrats. But Carl Stokes saw an opportunity to personally defeat Garofoli (and Stanton), and to get back at those who had been his bitterest opponents, the men who had refused to accord him "basic respect." Over the last weekend of the primary campaign, a taped message from Stokes was mechanically telephoned from Carney headquarters into the home of every black voter in the city, instructing the residents to go to the polls and vote...