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...Whites Massacred in Zaire," while Newsweek, slightly less hysterically racist, went with "Massacre in Zaire." White casualties were carefully tabulated and lamented, but the death toll for blacks--a much higher number--was not even mentioned for the first few days, then left casually at "several hundred." The caption on an AP photo in The New York Times was typical: underneath the picture of piled bodies, it said, "Bodies of a number of blacks and a European were found at this site...
With elections only a month away, France's bleak wintry landscape was suddenly abloom with bright billboards last week. The most striking campaign poster was one showing a sturdy tree with a caption calling for CONFIDENCE IN BARRE. The tree referred to a celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...
...height of the Viet Nam War by printing anti-SDS newsletters in the names of fictitious radical and right-wing groups and distributing them on college campuses. One leaflet circulated in 1967 showed the faces of four Princeton SDS leaders over sketches of monkeys' bodies, with the caption: "Princeton is not 'The Planet of the Apes...
...become the first woman Supreme Court Justice, Kay believes that law school should turn out students who are "able to separate the relevant from the irrelevant and focus on the core of a problem." In her office hangs a portrait of former Israeli Premier Golda Meir with the caption, "But can she type...
...Team caption William R. Horton Jr. '77 said the resolution "amounts to support of amateur hockey and what it stands for." Horton added the House attention might stimulate the growth of amateur sports in the Boston area...