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...holding their own assembly in front of the building to the cheers of hundreds of supporters, the opposition members began a march through the center of town. They were met with the batons of riot police. "Without any provocation or warning, policemen, mostly local, clubbed demonstrators," local opposition leader Dragoslav Travica told The Associated Press by telephone. Fifteen protesters were injured, including Ljubisa Brkic, an opposition member who had been elected to the town's council November 17. In Belgrade, opposition leader Vuk Draskovic, whose forces have themselves endured beatings over the past four days, feared even worse. "Time...
Tidal Terror. Last year, after careful analysis of cores taken from the sea bottom in the eastern Mediterranean, Columbia University Geologists Dragoslav Ninkovitch and Bruce Heezen established that there had actually been two volcanic eruptions on Thera, one around 1500 B.C., the other some 50 years later. The second eruption was so violent, they determined, that its ashes and poisonous vapors were carried hundreds of miles to the south by prevailing winds...
Then the Nazis came to Rumania and Poland's late leaders were herded into a concentration camp at Dragoslav. Last week the Marshal again justified his nickname when he and a number of lesser officers executed a mass escape from their camp and apparently from Rumania. The Gestapo, Nazi Army, Iron Guard and Rumanian police launched a nationwide manhunt, but found no trace of the nimble one. Reports from Budapest said he was aboard a steamer bound for Turkey...
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