Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gunfire began immediately, the two sides firing almost simultaneously. Bullets cut swaths through the walls of the house. Blue smoke belched through the windows as those inside replied with automatic fire of their own. For nearly an hour the firefight went on, one of the most furious gun battles ever waged in a U.S. city, with at least 1,000 rounds of ammunition expended by both sides...
That also was the report of Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick, who had been invited into the Oval Office a few hours before for an exclusive hour-and-20-minute interview, the first of its kind for more than a year. Kilpatrick looked at the long Nixon fingers for tremors of the kind Kilpatrick sometimes gets himself...
Haig has apparently more than met the President's needs at the White House. "He practically has no self any more," says White House Counsellor Dean Burch. "He spends almost all his working hours at the White House, eating off trays, putting out fires, and putting on Band-Aids." Haig rises every morning at 6:30, scans the newspapers and reaches the West Wing of the White House at 7:50. Promptly at 8:30, he chairs a meeting of the top presidential advisers. His manner is more that of a panel moderator than a commanding general. Once...
...hour before the deadline, the French ambassador, Jean Herly, finally appeared. But negotiations were beginning to go badly. For one thing, it had taken several hours for the Israelis to round up the prisoners to be released, since they were being held in ten different jails. There was also a problem in trying to get a United Nations plane from Cairo that would ferry the prisoners from Ben-Gurion Airport to Damascus. Compounding the confusion was the fedayeen's complicated plan for effecting the release of the prisoners they sought. The prisoners and half the hostages were to be flown...
Last week's bombs, made of 200-250 lbs. of gelignite, had been packed into three cars parked at curbs. They had been timed to explode at a peak rush hour, and there was no doubt that they were clearly meant to kill as many as possible. The force of the blasts hurled bodies through glass storefronts and left others grotesquely fused or mutilated. Limbs lay scattered about. One dead woman was found with parts of a car engine embedded in her back. Another victim, his leg twisted and bleeding, lay pleading, "I'm Tom O'Reilly...