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...simply impossible for a newspaper to operate in that kind of fishbowl, since nothing but the most simplistic version of the facts will escape charges of biased coverage. The instant a reporter tries to put the facts in perspective, the waves of public indignation will roll down to crush...
Compounding the horror of Biafra was the moral ambiguity that enveloped it from the first. Great powers and small became involved in the conflict, frequently for questionable reasons. The Soviet Union, eager to regain a foothold in Black Africa, delivered arms to help crush a rebellion that Moscow would, in another context, have hastened to hail as a "just war of national liberation." Britain, worried about African balkanization, Soviet influence and its own oil interests, supplied weapons to the Nigerians. The British were also concerned with preserving a state that its colonial officers had nursed to nationhood...
...Heathrow will be the second adequately" equipped airport, with an expanded terminal and twice as many customs officials. Tokyo's Haneda airport, probably the world's most crowded terminal, has made preparations only on paper, and no one knows how its thoroughgoing customs officers are going to handle the crush. J.F.K. airport in New York will not be fully prepared until...
...usual, the freshman team had a wider margin of victory than their varsity counterparts. The Yardlings swept three events and grabbed nine first places to crush Northeastern. 79-23. Dave Eliot, another K of C star, missed setting a new freshman record by three-tenths of a second in the 1000. His time was a very fast...
...Racks for sale dresses are stripped clean. Two women tugging on a Dior dress tear its seams. Caught in crush, one elderly lady faints and is hurried off to first aid. Survivors scurry off to corners, sort through dresses, throwing rejects on floor. They swap sizes with one another and exchange telephone numbers for later bartering. Mrs. Conroy: "You've got to hold your dresses tightly; otherwise some of those old squaws will sneak up behind you and snitch a few of them...