Word: hand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunny Saturday the couple, along with their lawyer, Steve Schlosser, and six of their closest friends, leaped out of three planes flying 10,500 ft. above the airport in Antioch, Calif. The plan called for Gene to hand over the papers to Schlosser, who would in turn relay them to Lynda. Then everybody would form a ring and give Lynda a kiss before yanking their ripcords and coming down to earth...
...usual, the Vietnamese were firing most of the rhetoric. Hanoi charged that Peking's soldiers had committed numerous atrocities during the invasion. Said a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman: "They broke people's skulls with gun butts, stabbed people with spears, beheaded them, chopped people into portions, threw hand grenades into people's shelters, rounded up people and then opened fire on them." In one ham let near Lang Son, the spokesman charged, seven children were taken from their beds and chopped into pieces, which were then thrown into a courtyard. In the Ba Xat district, he said...
...Fonda, Cameraman Michael Douglas −takes a routine tour of a nuclear power plant. They're in the visitors' gallery, looking into the control room presided over by Veteran Engineer Jack Lemmon, when everyone down there starts falling madly about. Some sort of crisis is obviously at hand. Ordered not to shoot...
...outlook seems bleak enough as matters stand now. Though most U.S. gasoline stations still have enough fuel on hand to meet the demands, oil company deliveries are rapidly being pared back to stretch dwindling inventories. Exxon's supplies are becoming so tight that last week the company had to impose an $8 limit on gas purchases at its stations along the heavily traveled New Jersey Turnpike. Exxon also said it would not renew crude-oil supply contracts with other companies, a step that is going to make it harder for the firms that have been cut off to meet...
...come in time to help the Government in the FBI case. Defense attorneys want to bring out classified information that might justify their clients' covert operations (the Weatherman, they claim, was dealing with Palestinian guerrillas, Cuba and North Viet Nam). So far the Government has refused to hand over the information. Last week the judge agreed to try Felt and Miller separately from Gray, partly because they claim that they acted on Gray's orders. It appears that Felt and Miller will go to trial, but since prosecuting Gray would bring out very sensitive national security information...