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Another man came in from the street and asked to use the toilet, and Don Blackwell said, "Yes sir. Help yourself." The radio was blaring a country refrain: "Let's go out in a blaze of glory." Three whittlers were sitting in a row, addressing their sticks...
...nuclear arms policies; three holders of honorary doctorates returned their degrees in protest. The demonstrators were peaceful, and they aimed their Irish ire at the Administration's foreign policy rather than at America. When someone set fire to a U.S. flag, other protesters rushed to put out the blaze and apologized to American reporters. "Our affection for America is as deep as ever," explained John Murphy, a former member of the Irish Senate. "But Reagan's nuclear and Central American policy is an unacceptable way of thinking...
...faulty light fixture caused the blaze, Cambridge Fire Department officials said...
...deterrent value. This is a naive argument, to say the least. The extensive mass media coverage surrounding executions in the '70's had little effect on climbing murder rates; TV coverage of the event itself might even inspire a few potential murderers who want to go out in a blaze of glory...
...face with a tear-gas canister and lost his lower lip. In the nearby town of Réhon, a gang of workers set fire to an elegant château frequented by factory managers; volunteer firemen, themselves off-duty steelworkers, refused to fight the blaze. When the long night was finally over, 15 people had been injured and 25 arrested in eight hours of skirmishes...