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...hour-long festivities featured proclamations from the governor and the mayor and patriotic song and dance from local high school students. The reanactment of William Dawes's--Revere's counterpart--ride through Cambridge highlighted the event. After beginning at Boston's Old North Church and continuing through Brookline, Dawes rode through the Square at about...
...Allied powers were struggling to gain ground in World War II when Franklin Roosevelt journeyed to Tehran for a meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Since then, every U.S. President has held a summit with his Soviet counterpart. Some have been successful: at the 1972 Nixon-Brezhnev conference, the two leaders signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation treaty, initiating a brief era of detente. Others have been less so: Nikita Khrushchev decided that John Kennedy would be a pushover after meeting him in Vienna in 1961 and a year later began installing nuclear missiles in Cuba; just six months...
...ravages of war have completely altered other sites of historical interest, obliterating ancient landmarks such as Jerusalem's Hurva Synagogue. The temple was the subject of an 1867 photograph, but only a reconstructed arch can be seen in Tassel's counterpart...
Mexican officials also arrested six civilians in connection with the crime, and they expect to arrest more policemen as the search widens. In Washington on Friday, Mexican Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez met with Edwin Meese, his U.S. counterpart, on future joint drug-control operations. Meanwhile, on Highway 111 near Camarena's home in the California town of Calexico, a billboard put up by his friends carried a dire message for those who are thinking of crossing the border...
Watson, who is in better health, faces the kind of dilemma now that his Harvard counterpart will at the end of the season. The Chicago Black Hawks are anxious for Watson to john them as soon as possible...