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...comparison, he trivializes the sacrifices and accomplishments of those who lived through or died in WW II. We probably are in WW III right now, but we are not yet fighting it that way. When we get to that point, Poniewozik can make his comparison more realistically. Michael Danek, Laingsburg, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

Barbara Tyler was so fed up with all the political ads blaring on her local TV that she switched to a satellite provider--but that didn't stop the flyers that are pouring through her Laingsburg, Mich., mailbox or the pollsters who keep calling to plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt. "Now it's, 'Oh, here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Secret Ground War | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

Barbara Tyler was so fed up with all the political ads blaring from her local TV stations that she switched to a satellite provider - but that didn't stop the flyers that are pouring through her Laingsburg, Mich., mailbox or the pollsters who keep calling to plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa?St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Candidates' Secret Ground War for Votes | 10/14/2000 | See Source »

...dusty Karroo town of Laingsburg, armed police were waiting for the hotheads. The soldiers piled off the train, pushed through the police, began to move in on the town. The police fired a volley over their heads, but they only laughed and went ahead. The next round killed one and wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Incident on the Veld | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Laingsburg incident" made inflammable hay for anti-war politicians, who hope to defeat Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts's pro-Allied Government in a forthcoming general election. In Parliament, British-hating, pro-Nazi Dr. Daniel François Malan, who leads the opposition to Prime Minister Smuts, solemnly denounced the "Smuts policy" of teaching non-whites to use arms, charged the Prime Minister with allowing "Communist agitators" to stir up the colored population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Incident on the Veld | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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