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...KILLED J.F.K.? The jolting question glares from bumper stickers, intrudes from posters, lures capacity crowds on the national campus lecture circuit. At least 87 U.S. Congressmen have backed a resolution urging a new investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which occurred in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963-twelve years ago this Saturday. Three congressional subcommittees are trying to find out precisely what information the FBI and CIA withheld from the Warren Commission's investigation of the crime...
...Concord Ave.," with a single large American flag dangling over the front door. Inside, the only open doors are to the right, in a sea of fake wood paneling. The doors lead into a bookstore where sits the receptionist, Sally Riley, amidst a welter of reprints, newsletters, magazines, bumper stickers, and books with screaming titles, blood dripping dramatically down the covers, chains a prominent motif, and "Conspiracy" figuring in almost every title. During a five-hour span when I was in and out of the bookstore, as I toured the Society's headquarters, nobody else ever came in to peruse...
...Washington, New York Mayor Abraham Beame cited the ways in which the city had cut back: a reduction of almost 36,000 public jobs, a freeze on wage increases and new construction, a boost in the transit fare to the highest in the nation (50?). Ford's "bumper-sticker philosophy," said Beame, had "triggered hatred, disunity and confusion." New York Governor Hugh Carey lobbied his former colleagues in Congress, then at the end of the week he headed for the West Coast to try to convince people that their fate was entwined with New York City's. Joining...
...flee the city. Overflow lines of visa applicants waited outside the U.S. embassy. Most stores did not reopen, but sidewalk vendors-sometimes offering looted goods from those same closed stores-busily peddled everything from vegetables to fancy clothes. Suitcases were especially hot items. Traffic was nearly at normal bumper-to-bumper proportions in some areas, though it thinned out early each afternoon, particularly on streets dividing opposing sides. In one remarkable incident, fedayeen of Fatah, on orders from Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, brought food and water to some 100 Lebanese Jews who had been trapped in a synagogue...
George W. Spartichino is one of those ethnic candidates that every Cambridge City Council election seems to attract. Even though he is running on a shoe-string budget--his bumper stickers are the left-overs of former Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn's governors campaign that have been stripped clean and reprinted--Spartichino insists that the north Cambridge voters that kept him in the State Legislature from 1956 to 1966 can send him to the council...