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...Ignatius '72 now works for the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street fuckin' Journal. He used to write about Revolution with a capital R which stood for Right Now and Right here in River City. It was the day after a Chicago jury, under the studious supervision of Judge Julius Hoffman, found five of the remaining Chicago 7 guilty--Seale had already been bound, gagged, hit with contempt of court and severed from the case. The Day After--TDA, for short--15,000 angry protesters gathered in Government Center and about a third of them marched down Tremont...
...President learned of it while at his official state home 21 miles away in Entebbe. There he remained, closeted and lonely, insisting that he was still President. In the midst of the rebellion, Binaisa dispatched plaintive letters to the leaders of three neighboring countries, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Kenya's Daniel arap Moi and Sudan's Gaafar Mohamed Nimeiri. The letters to Arap Moi and Nimeiri were intercepted by the Ugandan military. "Dear Brother Gaafar," said the missive to Nimeiri, stamped TOP SECRET, "I am in the middle of a political crisis... I ask you to make...
...program books and bright marquees spell out the official version of the 1980 National Basketball Association championship series: the Los Angeles Lakers vs. the Philadelphia 76ers. But basketball fans across the country know that the real name of these final games is: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar vs. Julius Erving. No matter what the outcome, the 1980 championship will be remembered as the long awaited meeting of the Big Guy and the Doctor...
...nearly a decade, such a showdown has been the stuff of a hoop fan's dreams. Abdul-Jabbar, the N.B.A.'s five-time Most Valuable Player, the compleat center whose size (7 ft. 2 in.) does not diminish his grace. Julius Erving, the flashy, 6-ft. 6-in. forward from the now defunct A.B.A., whose rafter-clearing leaps and fluid moves earned him the sobriquet Dr. J (as in, watch him operate). Only after a merger of the warring leagues and four years of playoff eliminations did Abdul-Jabbar's Lakers dominate the West and Erving...
...flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses and a well-pressed fatigue uniform with a hand grenade dangling from one pocket. Newly installed in the executive mansion, Doe summoned the ranking U.S. diplomat, Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker, and sent his new Foreign Minister, former Opposition Leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews, together with a contingent of troops, to get him. Matthews showed up still dressed in the tattered shorts he had been wearing when released from jail only a few hours before...