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There was little doubt about the reason for the Birmingham atrocity. Two weeks ago, an I.R.A. terrorist named James McDaid, 28, blew himself to bits while planting a bomb in Coventry, 15 miles east of Birmingham. On Thursday, McDaid's body was to be flown from Birmingham to Belfast for a "military funeral" and burial. The Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political whig, planned to turn the moving of his body from a Coventry mortuary to a Birmingham airport into a defiant and inflammatory hero's farewell. Some 1,500 police were on hand to enforce...
...reasons that Karleton Armstrong was not made a folk hero. The Wisconsin graduate student who blew up a war-research building at the university in Madison and killed an unrelated occupant had a few radical intellectuals to help him out at his trial, but the liberals and students who shared his point of view about the Indochina War couldn't make the leap to understanding his action. They felt the horror of the war, but for them fighting it was not a way of life for people to join in together. For Armstrong, reacting to the war was a personal...
...calls were fair, we had our share, but blew it just the same...
...close match," inside center Sam Pillsbury said yesterday. "They blew two tries and we blew...
With good reason obviously. Although the princes at one point were $2 million ahead, they went on to prove that old axiom once formulated by Casino Founder Camille Blanc: "Money won by gamblers is just money loaned." The sheiks kept on gambling and not only blew it all but racked up losses of more than $6 million...