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...only a few episodes on the carrier's other routes? And how come no passengers or pilots were involved in the 170 reports of the so-called red sweat? Last week the culprit was discovered. It turned out to be just flecks of red ink from the words DEMO ONLY that were stenciled on new life jackets Eastern uses to show emergency procedures. When the attendants put the jackets on or took them off, bits of ink flaked off, flecking their skin and sometimes causing inflammation of the pores. That explained why so few other routes were involved...
...started as if it were nothing. Just two red buses; maybe 150 people. They got out and started milling around the big iron gates. They chanted anti-Carter slogans, threw a few rocks over the red brick wall, got back in the buses and drove away. End of demo. I was headed for the cafeteria, and Embassy Political Officer Herb Hagerty called out, "Save me a seat, I'll be right there." He never made it. It was a few minutes later, about 1p.m., that the buses returned, this time six of them. They were crammed with people, both...
...tens of thousands, or even a hundred thousand people show up and they're angry, and scared, and feel used by the government, then the May 6 demo may be looked back on as the beginning of the end of nuclear power in the U.S. That end is already in sight, because no one is planning on building any new reactors. But the reactors now in use continue to turn out in their deadly radiation, and the cancers don't show up until long after the profits do. Besides, nuclear power is a world problem, and the peoples...
...demo organizers described the protest as an "informational picket," reflecting their desire to use the coming months to educate Harvard students about the situation in South Africa...
TERRORISM After terrorists kidnaped Christian Demo cratic Leader Aldo Moro earlier this year, Cardinal Luciani told a newspaper that "the negation of God" was at the root of social distress. "Tear God out of man's heart? Tell children that sin is only a fairy tale invented by their grandparents to make them behave? Print school textbooks that ignore God and deride authority? Then don't become amazed at what's happening. It's already an effort for those who believe in God to remain honest. Just imagine how it is if one no longer believes...