Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the awkward five-pointed Red Brigades star, was sent mysteriously to Rome's daily Il Messaggero and left in a phone booth near the RAI state-run TV headquarters. It did not otherwise state any specific demands for Moro's release, but said further communiques would follow. Nonetheless, there was a growing belief that foreign extremists, probably Germans, had helped plan Moro's abduction. Noting the similarities to the kidnaping last September of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne and the military precision of the Moro operation, one official observed that "such a perfect crime means...
Some of the wells are drilled by utilities and wildcatters who provide free fuel and a small royalty to the landowner. Other wells are sunk by individuals. A typical case is that of Fred Norman of Harborcreek, near Erie, Pa., who decided three years ago to follow the example of many of his neighbors and dig his own well. For $3,000 Norman hired a water-well driller, who struck gas at only 874 ft. Norman's cousin, a plumber, rigged a pipe to carry the gas into the house, where it fuels a hot-water heater, two heating...
...South Africa. Citibank did not trumpet its decision; it broke the news in a proxy statement to shareholders, quietly adding that it is continuing to lend "selectively, to constructive private sector activities that create jobs and which benefit all South Africans." It did not say what guidelines it would follow to make sure its loans achieved a multiracial purpose. Nonetheless, activist groups that have been pushing U.S. companies to get out of South Africa were happy that such a major bank had actually cut off credit to the government. Says Woody Connette, lawyer for the United Church of Christ Board...
...will be at the start of the Freedom Trail. Follow it until you reach Faneuil Hall. Take a lunch break and browse in adjacent Quincy Market, next to Haymarket. Buy a pizza and have a few beers, or try some of the delicacies for sale inside...
After lunch follow the Freedom Trail into the North End. Once there, start yelling. "Anthony, Anthony." Ask one of the hundreds of kids that come running up to you for directions to the Etna Pastry Shop at 7 Prince St. When you reach Etna's, ask for a half dozen cannoli (a luscious, cream-filled Italian pastry), and then head for one of the many fine restaurants in the North End to get some spaghetti, ravioli, veal cacciatore or whatever you want. (I recommend Felicia...