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...smears. The candidates have reached inside the grabbag of political stereotypes and pulled out a couple of humdingers for each other which bear little resemblance to the genuine articles. Tower depicts Bob Krueger as a lackey to big labor. A spot commercial shows John Tower heroically resisting a bull-dozer driven by AFL-CIO President George Meany, carrying a slip of paper in his pocket which reads, "Krueger's vote." The commercial conveniently overlooks one crucial fact--Bob Krueger's mixed record on labor issues. For example, he voted against common situs picketing and repeal of right-to-work statutes...
Machine pistols cracked. Sobered, the dozer straightened up, clattered straight into a 5-ft.-deep antitank ditch and through three barbed-wire fences to come to rest against a tree in the Spandau section of West Berlin. From the bulldozer's cab emerged two husky young East Germans, their pregnant wives, and the towheaded three-year...
...turned out that the ringleader had got the idea for the escape when his job required him to use the dozer to level the forbidden strip opposite Spandau. He and a neighbor in the nearby hamlet of Falkensee lined the cab with steel plate against the bullets of border guards, and it was a sound idea, since the bulldozer was hit by at least 30 bullets. As an additional defense, both men had carried bags of pepper "to throw in their eyes in case they stopped us." Far more fortifying were other advance preparations, which may have explained some...
...project proceeded and was eventually completed as the dozer came to level the road, and the councilman came to dump two truckloads of sand for the workers to spread and tamp. The drained mud dried in the sun and was covered with sand and urban community development gained another adherent. Sunday came to a close. The workers congratulated themselves on a job well done, the councilman busily shook hands, and the Peace Corps Volunteers went for a beer...
Building operations on the hill stopped while a team of 15 archaeologists including De Lumley's wife, Marie-Antoinette, moved in, first with a bull dozer, then with trowels, knives, surgical instruments and brushes to carefully scrape away the dirt. "In removing 32 ft. of soil," De Lumley says, "we stripped away 200,000 years of man's history...