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These sensible steps, however, are being undermined by the quixotic behavior of some of the council's more impulsive members. The soldier who executed Tolbert, Harrison T. Pennue, marched into Monrovia's John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center shortly after the coup and pistol-whipped a doctor in the middle of an operation. Pennue was subsequently imprisoned for a week and demoted to "co-member" of the council. In July, P.R.C. Co-Chairman Thomas Weh Syen went on a rampage in eastern Liberia, demolishing a century-old monument to the country's founders and ordering the discharge...
Leaves of gas from Harrison and Morrison...
Acting against the best counsel of Chuck Berry - "Want me to marry, get a home/ Settle down, write a book/ Too much monkey business!" - publishers have been doing a brisk trade in books about rock. Two recent ones - George Harrison's I Me Mine and No One Here Gets Out Alive, a fisheyed life of the late Jim Morrison - have only rock in common. The Morrison opus, which has remained high on the trade paperback bestseller list for three months, is a sort of titillation special that reads like the hi-fi equivalent of the similarly successful memoirs...
...event that nobody, not even the sponsors, considers dramatic. The appeal of free anything, even books, doesn't quite explain it. Nor does the touching fact that the bookmobile visit was dedicated to the memory of a respected Claypool veterinarian and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Harrison N. Waite, both well-known lovers of books. Indeed, the remarkable turnout is not accounted for even by the fact that for people in lonely or quiescent places, reading has always been the surest nutrient for imagination, the most reliable route to the human community of mind and fancy...
...attempt to demonstrate that their clients were only following Weinberg's "script," the defense lawyers played a tape recording of Weinberg supposedly coaching Democratic Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey in June 1979 for a meeting with an undercover agent. Williams, who has not been indicted, has acknowledged that he met with Weinberg and the pseudo Arab, but has denied doing anything illegal. On the tape, Weinberg urged, "You gotta tell him how important you are. You tell him in no uncertain terms: 'Without me there is no deal...