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Wilson ordered about 100 members of his advance party to rush ahead in helicopters, securing both Fitzroy and the nearby settlement of Bluff Cove. The small British contingents held the position for about two days, while other units of the Fifth boarded the Sir Galahad and the Sir Tristram at Port San Carlos to join them. When the ships reached Fitzroy, they began unloading men and equipment. In effect, the British had a second beachhead on East Falkland...
What happened next, Riethmiller told a packed courtroom in Cincinnati last week, was anything but O.K. After being transferred to a sedan driven by her mother Marita, she was taken 400 miles south to Cedar Bluff, Ala. There, in a secluded lakeside vacation cottage outside of town, Riethmiller says she was subjected to seven harrowing days of harassment and rape. Her parents say she was being deprogrammed. But their daughter was not a convert to some bizarre religious cult. Her parents believed that she had become estranged from them after falling into a lesbian relationship with Thiemann, a friend from...
...integration [but are seeking] the decent, Christian course of action in granting the coloreds the right of self-determination in their own affairs." His Minister of Police Louis le Grange put it more vehemently. The country's whites, he warned, could not reject power sharing forever "and then bluff yourselves into thinking that you are not sitting on a revolution...
...human side of his museum's roller-coaster history means a great deal to Carney Gavin. A bluff, bulky, gigantically affable man, he makes friends--and remembers their names--with instinctive ease. He saw that his cause carried little weight among the administrators: he had no money. So Gavin, a practicing Catholic priest, turned to his last resource: people. He marshalled a vast army of eager volunteers out of thin air, and by the mid-'70s, hundreds of area professionals and students were helping him put his museum back together again. He once even piled the entire Harvard football team...
Reagan and O'Neill get ready to call each other's bluff...