Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walls decorated with photographs of Hitler, Goebbels and Goring. On a chest of drawers lay the May issue of Shooting Times. Born in Bulgaria, Angelof deserted his country's army in 1965, slipped across the border into Greece, and entered the U.S. as a refugee in 1966. The Central Park episode would not have been so prominently noted had it not occurred on the fringe of Manhattan's safest and most comfortable East Side enclave...
Within three hours after the Central Park shootings, and referring directly to them, President Johnson again pleaded with Congress to "pass the gun-control measures which are needed to protect the American people against insane and reckless murder by gunfire." Congressional reaction was muted. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, under heavy pressure from Montana hunters to oppose gun-control legislation, compromised by repeating his support for a moderate law sponsored by Maryland's Joseph Tydings while rejecting Johnson's measure requiring the registration of all firearms in the U.S. Congressional mail, which had overwhelmingly supported tough gun controls...
...early morning after the Central Park gun battle, Saidallah Sirhan, 36, brother of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, pulled in to the Pasadena police station and said that while he was driving home on the Pasadena Freeway, someone had fired twice on his car after it was boxed in by two other cars. Police found two .38-cal. slugs embedded in Sirhan's 1955 De Soto. But some police officers were skeptical of Sirhan's tale...
...hands cannot be divulged at the moment," he wrote. "It is enough to say that it required no monetary remuneration." Actually, several copies of the diary have been around for the stealing or buying. At least one copy each had been photographed for Bolivian President Rene Barrientos, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and several Bolivian military brass. In addition, two U.S. journalists were allowed to transcribe many of the doc- uments found on Che, which included, besides the diary, correspondence and military records. Other copies of the diary could certainly have been made by Castro sympathizers...
Wallace explained, "The dorms are better off than most because of the simplicity of installing the phones. On campus, the same cables and telephone number are assigned to a room over the years. Most of the work for reconnecting a phone can be done in the central office. Also, there is less paperwork. Since we are very short on personnel, this is important...