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...GUARDSMAN...
Heavy rains in the Appalachian hill country of eastern Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia sent some rivers rolling to their highest flood levels in a century. As the Big Sandy, Cumberland and Kentucky gushed over their banks in Kentucky (a national guardsman described "a big whooshing noise"), five people were swept to their deaths and 7,600 families fled. When they returned, their homes were gone, or wrecked by water...
...Series. Haley, a 55-year-old retired Coast Guardsman who is best known as the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, may be the only black American to possess such precise details about his ancestry. Roots: The Saga of an American Family is Haley's memorial to that past. After twelve years of research and writing, delays and financial crises, the book is finally out. Yet it moves like a deep, slow-moving river that has always been there. For those who are unable or unwilling to read its 587 pages, Roots has been made a twelve...
...National Guardsman wearing wrinkled khakis and brandishing a holstered belt staggered onto the Government Center Blue Line train at about 5:45. Waving the holster about semi-consciously he barely mumbled something, perhaps obscene, at two uneasy women sitting across from him. He was only coherent when he proclaimed that he was going to Logan Airport where he would be the honor guard at the Red Sox arrival...
...whether guns should be loaded; the unit commanders testified that they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt my life was in danger," claimed former Sgt. Lawrence Shafer. Yet Guardsman James W. Ferriss testified: "I saw no necessity to shoot...