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...Birmingham. On Thursday, McDaid's body was to be flown from Birmingham to Belfast for a "military funeral" and burial. The Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political whig, planned to turn the moving of his body from a Coventry mortuary to a Birmingham airport into a defiant and inflammatory hero's farewell. Some 1,500 police were on hand to enforce a government ban on the demonstration. The Birmingham bombs were apparently set off in cruel revenge...
Talk in Israel was equally defiant. Reviewing the Israeli position in advance of Kissinger's visit, Premier Yitzhak Rabin told the Israeli Parliament that his government was carrying out "a combination of two efforts, preparation for the possibility of war and a drive toward peace." Preparations for war include a call-up of army reserve mechanics to get all mobile equipment in combat shape and a review of all men under the age of 54 who had previously been disqualified from service for medical reasons...
They were a ragtag regiment. Some wore the camouflage suits of EOKA-B, the pro-Athens, anti-Makarios terrorist group. Others had on U.S. Army fatigues with American names still stenciled over pockets. All gave defiant V-for-victory signs as they straggled off to the front where they faced better-trained and equipped Turkish forces...
Beecher is nearly prose-flat, simplistic, partial to Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp" and defiant about it: "Must I be schooled,/ veil plain speech in symbolic fog, costume/ polemics for a merry morris dance,/ practice new types of ambiguity . . .?" He can be perversely unsophisticated, monotonously on the side of the "little...
Facing demands for Watergate-related White House evidence on three fronts, President Nixon last week hung tough, adamant and defiant. He flouted the constitutionally sanctioned impeachment process by informing the House Judiciary Committee that he will ignore all pending and future subpoenas for White House tapes and documents. He directed his attorneys to appeal Federal Judge John J. Sirica's succinct ruling that Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's subpoenas for 64 tape recordings are legally binding upon the President. He took legal action to kill court-sanctioned subpoenas for White House files from two defendants in the impending...