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Military Fashion. The Falcons began beating demonstrators. Moments later a second wave appeared, armed with pistols, M-2 carbines and submachine guns and firing at random. All told, perhaps 1,000 Falcons joined the fray, clubbing newsmen and firing up at high buildings where they suspected cameramen might be taking pictures. "They executed their movements in military fashion," said one witness. "They were well trained in the Japanese art of fighting with bamboo staves and equipped with a radio communications system...
Revelations. Still the most vocal of the Democrats was the man who touched off the controversy, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs of Louisiana. Three weeks ago, Boggs accused the bureau of wiretapping. Last week, having promised corroborating evidence, Boggs steamed into the fray. On the House floor he insisted during an impassioned, hour-long speech that his contention was true and went on to intimate that electronic surveillance devices may have been used against other Administration critics, among them former Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois and Democrat Birch Bayh of Indiana...
...hopes for re-election on the slogan: "Give Tokyo back its blue sky!" His opponent for the governorship (the equivalent of a U.S. mayoralty) is former Police Chief Akira Hatano, 59, a first-time campaigner, hand-picked by Premier Eisaku Sato and his Liberal Democratic Party. Hatano joined the fray with a promise from Sato that if he wins, the federal government will put up 4 trillion yen ($11 billion) to make Tokyo livable again...
...churches themselves-with the exception of the Dutch Reformed-may soon be more actively engaged in the fray. "The great majority of white Christians have felt that they could combine Christianity with apartheid," notes Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban. "But as some Christians become more sensitive to the basic incompatibility between the two, they will force other white Christians to decide where they stand." That may already be happening. One group of Johannesburg Catholics petitioned their bishop for "clear direction . . . before Christian witness is silenced forever...
...went home to another emotional encounter. A female chauffeur whom she had fired for rudeness was discovered hiding in a closet with a hammer, and it took the 61-year-old actress, her stepmother, 70, her secretary and another chauffeur ten minutes to subdue her. Kate emerged from the fray with a new memento of Hartford-a finger that was fractured and bitten to the bone...