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...birthplace of O. Henry and the home of several of the nation's largest textile mills. But Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 144,000), has also been the site of bitter racial conflict, dating back to sit-ins at lunch counters in the early 1960s and a riot in 1969 at a predominantly black local college that left one student dead. Nothing in Greensboro's past, however, came close to what happened last week: a Shootout between Ku Klux Klansmen and anti-Klan protesters in which four people were killed and nine were wounded. The city's mayor...
...largest and most active of the relief organizations involved are the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). Working jointly, along with such related U.N. agencies as the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Program, the two groups have so far sent 2,500 tons of food and supplies into Cambodia and undisclosed amounts of aid to refugee camps that they operate in Thailand. As the principal agencies through which governmental contributions are funneled into Cambodia, ICRC and UNICEF have already received pledges totaling $137 million, well above...
...hour spot, they would be besieged with other requests; moreover, they say the candidates would do better buying time on local stations during the primaries. Reagan's staff did just that, but on a national scale. They organized a network of stations in the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas and many smaller ones to broadcast his declaration speech...
...54th-floor boardroom of Chrysler Corp.'s offices atop the Pan Am building in Manhattan was understandably subdued. Sales were still slumping, costs continued to soar, and back in Detroit the company had earlier in the week announced a third-quarter deficit of $461 million, by far the largest quarterly loss in its troubled financial history...
...companies have been announcing unexpectedly high profits. Last week, following reports by other major oil companies of large third-quarter profit boosts, including Exxon's 118% rise to a record $1.1 billion, the Standard Oil Co. of California announced a quarterly gain of 110%. Ten of the largest U.S. oil companies showed third-quarter gains averaging...