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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Sullivan, a Law School graduate running for city council on the slate, said "the system is bad in that sense--it creates an incentive to find minor points of difference and then blow them up." Sullivan, as well as the other convention candidates, insists that although the tensions exist, the Convention unity can withstand them. Every Convention candidate interviewed said that he or she can work with any candidate on the slate...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: A Slate of Reformers | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...lead women in the play--Charlotte Corday (Sarah Jane Norris), the upperclass young woman who murders Marat in his bath, and Simone (Robin Leidner), who keeps him alive until Corday's final blow--are both perhaps slightly too intense at the beginning to permit their characters to develop. The trick in Weiss's Marat/Sade is that the players must grow in the course of the play, gradually changing from lunatics to historical figures, blending one element into the other. Norris is a brilliant Corday at first, but because she begins her part with too much tension, she has nowhere...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Political Asylum | 11/5/1977 | See Source »

...first, the report in The Boston Globe that Vellucci took an unauthorized leave of absence from his state tax department job appeared to deal a serious blow to his chances of winning a 12th consecutive term on the City Council. The Globe's "Spotlight Team" of reporters trailed Vellucci for a day and reported he was actually showing visitors around Cambridge, although he previously said he would be in Everett on state business. The report prompted Vellucci to resign the job with what appeared a weak protestation of innocence. A departmental investigation followed, resulting last week in the five...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A1 Vellucci On The Spot | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

...effort. And even that sizable a force could not seal off the waterway's lock mechanisms, dams and power plants from some kind of sabotage. A band of skilled terrorists, for example, could approach the Gatun Dam through the dense jungle with relative ease. Properly placed explosives could blow up the dam, drain the water that is required to operate the locks and put the whole canal out of commission for as long as two years. General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "If I were a guerrilla backed by Fidel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: That Troublesome Panama Canal Treaty | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...know that Nicosia-out of order, repeat out of order. He should try for Larnaca or Akrotiri." When the plane touched down at Larnaca a heavily accented voice took over and declared in English, "Here is Captain Mahmud. Refuel the plane. If you will not refuel, I will blow the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Terror and Triumph at Mogadishu | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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