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On Thursday night, according to Evans, demonstrators broke into a YAF meeting and ripped up some of the group's literature. One YAF'er was hospitalized after the resulting fracas, Evans said.
Venture Opposition. Even so, there is no doubt that a Haynsworth defeat would hurt the President. Having thrown his full weight behind the nomination, he cannot hope to retrieve his prestige unscathed. Party unity, already damaged by the fracas, will suffer further; Senators will perhaps be emboldened to venture more...
Last week in Paris, France's shopkeepers staged their biggest demonstration yet. Some 25,000 grocers and hoteliers, barbers and plumbers, from as far away as Corsica, crowded into the Pare des Princes stadium to protest stiff taxes and rising competition from modern large-scale retailers. They carried banners...
The fracas started as the Weathermen were staging a march with a heavy police escort from Haymarket Square to Grant Park as the finale to their "Bring the War Home" demonstrations.
War in the Air. The heaviest air action took place high over the Golan Heights, where a hunting pack of Israeli Mirage 111-Cs collided with a covey of Syrian MIG-21s. It was the biggest air victory since the 1967 war. Israel claimed seven Syrian jets were knocked down...