Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Braintree, Mass., Sunoco Station Manager Bruce Weir was laboring over his books at 6:15 a.m. "I saw a fellow pull up to the pump in a late model Chevy Malibu and I went out and knocked at the window and I said, 'I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell gas till 7.' I started back and got two steps from the door when I felt a big bang on my left leg. I grabbed my leg. Below me was a bottle of Heineken's, half full. Now I walk backwards...
...main reason for the exodus is a barbarous policy of racism being carried out by the Hanoi government. The great majority of Vietnamese refugees are ethnic Chinese, and in effect the government is expelling them for profit. The ancient antagonism between the Vietnamese and their Chinese fellow citizens was aggravated by the recent Sino-Vietnamese border war. That indecisive conflict evidently caused Hanoi to regard its Chinese population of about one million as a potentially dangerous fifth column. Some refugees arriving in Hong Kong and elsewhere say they were given a choice of emigrating or moving from cities...
...electoral decline has resulted in recriminations aimed at the party's leadership. Citing "errors at the top," the party's peppery elder statesman, Giancarlo Pajetta, warned: "Someone with responsibility will have to pay." That someone might be Berlinguer. Although he has not been publicly attacked by his fellow Communists, Berlinguer's authority is being seriously questioned for the first time since he took over the party...
Marian's man (Lee Richardson) is a promiscuous boulevardier who swings both ways. Louise's former husband (John Cunningham) is a likable fellow, pugilistic only during the marital mismatch. Estelle's man (Graham Beckel) lives in an orphanage of the mind except that he now has a Du Pont to bail...
DIED. Anatoli Kuznetsov, 49, Russian author of Babi Yar, a documentary novel about the Nazi slaughter of Jews and others outside Kiev, who fled to Britain in 1969; of a heart attack; in London. Once an obedient party member who even informed on fellow writers for the KGB, he bitterly denounced his homeland as a "fascist state" after his defection...