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...signs of a police presence anywhere near the building. It is the occupying union men who maintain tight security. Five burly railroad workers in their uniforms stand guard at the entrance. The inner door is chained and padlocked. Although the occupiers claim to have about 400 people inside, a first-hand head count put that number at closer to 100. In a solemn mood, the peasants and factory workers sit around chatting idly, reading newspapers, playing cards or chess. At night bedrolls and mattresses are laid out side by side on the floor...
Willie says he cannot predict how desegregation efforts will proceed under President Reagan's administration. He does admit, though, that "the new administration will take positive action only if it contains people who have first-hand knowledge of minorities"--knowledge most new appointees sorely lack. What's more, minorities must still have the resolve to fight for integration, even though they know they fact a time-consuming and painful struggle, Willie says...
...also learned that the West adheres to certain perceptions of Cambodia, which a first-hand viewpoint contradict...
Tumbling out of the plane and into their hotel a few yards away (planted on Seattle's famous "airport strip"), the Harriers got a chance to survey the course first-hand from their scenic vantage point, watching their opponents struggle through the soaked fairways of the Tyee Golf Course as Braniff departures and arrivals whizzed overhead...
Lenz would like to travel to Russia for the 1980 Olympics this summer (he's against the boycott) to get a first-hand view of the Russians' different attitude toward the sport and the intense training methods...