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Detroit, July 1967. The worst riot of the decade erupted on a muggy night when police raided an after-hours drinking club. At the height of the violence, President Lyndon Johnson sent in the U.S. Army, and the National Guard fired machine guns from Sherman tanks. The seven-day toll: 43 killed, 2,000 injured, 7,000 arrested and 5,000 left homeless...
...temptation for a military autocracy in the making. But it obviously would do nothing to relax the explosive tensions in Kwangju. As the past few weeks have shown once again, unruly events in South Korea have a frightening way of taking on a life of their own. At the height of the bloodshed and chaos in Kwangju last week, one university demonstrator shook his head with fear and disbelief. "This," he said, "is something we never intended...
...elected to Parliament, he was hooted down when he tried to speak. "The time will come when you will hear me," he responded. It was a prediction he made come true through force of will and intellect. Inch by inch he pulled himself up to Downing Street, from which height he outrageously flattered Queen Victoria (Rosemary Leach). But, true to his romantic temperament, he probably believed most of what he said. "I would dare to offer you my heart," he tells her, "but Your Majesty had it long...
...servicemen* who died in the aborted raid in Iran. After meeting beforehand with the families of the dead men, Carter delivered a nine-minute eulogy. "It is not the length of life," he said, "that determines its impact or its quality, but the depth of its commitment and the height of its purpose." While Carter spoke, his voice was firm. But later, when a lone bugler played taps, when six Thunderbird jets swooped across the sky in the "missing-man formation," when the hymn God of Our Fathers swelled up from the audience, the President wiped away tears with...
...neck. Printed on it is a short, direct message: DRINK ME. Prudently, Alice looks to make sure there is no additional marking saying POISON, mindful that imbibing toxic liquids "is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later." Discovering none, she obeys the command-and shrinks to a height of ten inches...