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...revolutionary groups in Spain at this time and it is difficult to tell exactly how many acts of violence ETA has been responsible for over the past five years. It is unlikely that they have perpetrated all they have claimed. ETA has been called the "Spanish equivalent of the IRA" but this comparison is valid in spirit only. ETA has over fifteen separate, independent factions, no viable central organization and receives outside help randomly...
Perhaps he had just rejected his past. Oscar Ameringer, editor of the Labor World, later wrote that Hall got "tired of advertising the fact that his father had made an ass of himself fighting for slaves he might have sold to the Yanks and still kept as sharecroppers." Ira Finley, another friend, wrote of Hall that "trained and educated to be a respectable citizen, "he "rather chose to be a companion of the Toilers." Perhaps, but I think not, for Covington Hall was neither a cynic about nor a rejecter of the Old South...
...experts were charged by Judge Wenke to determine if the bullets recovered from Kennedy's neck and from the wounded bystanders, Ira Goldstein and William Weisel, were fired from the same gun. The "two gun" advocates had relied heavily upon the 1970 findings of Pasadena Criminologist William W. Harper; using a Balliscan, a specialized camera used to photograph a cylindrical object rotated in front of it, he decided that the recovered Kennedy bullet had only one cannelure-a groove imprinted by the manufacturer - while the others had two concentric grooves. If so, that would at least raise the possibility...
...increasing at the rate of 2.5 million per year-more people are buying them in self-defense. It is not just the frontier mentality that lingers on in America; to a considerable extent in big cities, frontier conditions have been reestablished because of the surge in violent crime. Ira Latimer, executive vice president of the American Federation of Small Business, told Conyers' subcommittee: "The gun is the self-defense weapon of the cities. Small businessmen need them to survive." Some law-abiding citizens are reluctant to lay down their guns until the criminals have done so. The nation...
...Providence brings in all these Irish imports," McCurdy said yesterday, "so I think that our best chance would be an IRA rebellion. It appeals to my devious nature to unite with the IRA...