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Charles Reid, a member of a special mayor's committee for easing tensions in the ghetto, reported seeing one suspected looter shot repeatedly in the back by a black policeman and his white partner. By midevening, Chief Bequest was asking for outside help to bolster his 130-man force, and Governor Lester Maddox responded by sending in 100 state troopers and 200 members of the Georgia National Guard; another 1,000 Guardsmen arrived the following day. By morning, most of the violence was over...
...quite believes the way Lawrence manipulates dialogue for his own didactic purposes. In the novel that doesn't really matter, because in his semi-mystic descriptions of nature, his hypersymbolic dramatic vignettes, his sometimes fumbling but mostly honest attempts to define sexuality, Lawrence gives us so much else to bolster his argument. His dialogue is only a part of a most imposing whole, and so we forgive it its deficiencies. So when Kramer's screenplay captures the dialogue, but neglects those elements of the novel that support it, it really is like cutting off the visible peak of an iceberg...
...join the Bolshevik Revolution and became one of Soviet Communism's staunchest soldiers. A favorite of Stalin, he rose to the rank of Marshal at the age of 45, won a reputation for tenacity and rigorous discipline if not for tactical brilliance He was called in to bolster the sagging Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and led five armies plus 20 divisions in the famed battle of Smolensk in 1941. Though Timoshenko's troops were eventually defeated, his ten-week defensive stand ruined the Nazis' timetable and forced them into the bitter winter campaign for Moscow...
...likely soon. After severe prodding by Washington, the Japanese in 1968 agreed "voluntarily" to limit their shipments to the U.S. to 5,200,000 tons a year. So far, the move has been relatively painless for Japanese steelmen, who have found new markets in Europe and China to bolster home markets that are rising fast. After years of skimping on domestic needs to concentrate on exports, the Japanese are at last expanding and improving their inadequate housing, roads and harbors...
...American life was the white liberal. Maligned by youth, by blacks, and eventually by himself, the white liberal has only recently begun to counterattack. Who went South to integrate Mississippi? he asks. Who supported the Warren Court? Urban planning? Pollution control? Open housing? But whenever the liberal begins to bolster his case, along comes some damaging new weapon to support the radical credo. The latest is a destructive anti-personnel device entitled The Liberation of L.B. Jones...