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...DIED. Chester Bitterman, 28, Protestant missionary who was kidnaped from the Colombian headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators on Jan. 19 by hooded terrorists claiming to represent the Marxist "April 19th Movement"; of gunshot wounds after 48 days in captivity; in Bogota, Colombia. Bitterman, the father of two, was found in a stolen minibus after the evangelical Wycliffe organization rejected a terrorist manifesto accusing it of being a CIA front and demanding that it pull out of the country...
...Under Secretary for Political Affairs; Myer Rashish, a free-trade economist, as Under Secretary for Economic Affairs; former Senator James Buckley, a staunch conservative, as Under Secretary for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. Several of Haig's appointees are old colleagues. Lawrence Eagleburger, Chester Crocker, John H. Holdridge and Robert Hormats, slated to be important Assistant Secretaries, all worked with Haig on Kissinger's staff. Right-wingers in Congress have held up some of the appointments even though Haig's aides are all at work as if they had Senate approval. Meanwhile, Reagan last week formally nominated...
...similar scene occurs in Chester Himes' If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945). Himes' hero, Bob Jones, takes his girlfriend to an exclusive restaurant, where the waiters stick them off in a corner and where other customers ogle the black couple as if they were birds in a zoo. Jones' girlfriend is mortified. He trembles between panic and rage. Looking around the room, he sees a white ensign and a "very blond girl" sitting with an older couple, evidently the parents of one of them. Jones and the ensign have been casually admiring each other...
Councilor David Wylie urged the city's civil defense department to end its evacuation planning and instead mobilize public sentiment against nuclear weapons. "The only way you can help is to tell the citizens that the only way out is disarmament," he told Chester Hallice, the city's director of civil defense...
...Pretty toilet tissue with a ticket for a promotional game called Scott Cash. As he scraped away the silver coating over a tic-tac-toe grid, he discovered that he had won $1,000. The elated Sanchez family promptly sent the ticket, as stipulated, to Scott Paper Co. in Chester, Pa., by registered mail. After a month went by without a word from Scott, Martin Sanchez called the firm only to be told that someone had signed for the ticket, but no one could find it. Sanchez sent them a photocopy. Two weeks later, Scott pronounced his entry invalid, claiming...