Word: lateraling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know what to do with them, don't you?' And I said 'Yes.' And he left and came back about ten minutes later, and said, 'How come you ain't killed them yet?' And I told him that I didn't think he wanted us to kill them, that he just wanted us to guard them. He said, 'No, I want them dead.' So he started shooting them. And he told me to start shooting. I poured about four clips [68 shots] into them. I might have killed 10 or 15 of them...
THIRTY years later, the blurb in the Pine Bluff, Ark., high school yearbook under the picture of the pretty blonde remains apt. Letting go after the march on Washington, Martha Mitchell told a television interviewer: "As my husband has said many times, some of the liberals in this country, he'd like to take them and change them for Russian Communists." Since Martha Mitchell's husband is the Attorney General of the U.S., the remark caused a certain furor. John Mitchell, at a press conference, set the record straight: "If you will transpose the word 'liberal...
...year because, she says, "I despised it." During World War II, she married Clyde Jennings, but the marriage ended in divorce, as did Mitchell's first marriage. Martha and John met on a weekend in New York in the early '50s and were married several months later. While Mitchell was a $250,000-a-year Manhattan attorney, they lived in Rye, N.Y. Now they are ensconced in a $140,000 duplex in Washington's fashionable Watergate apartments...
...Gradually, however, we are beginning to find strength within ourselves, and this means that sooner or later much can change. Judging by his books, it is impossible to say that Solzhenitsyn is 'persecuted and tormented.' He gives the impression of a man capable of standing up against persecution. He has already once preserved his inner freedom in prison, and will evidently do so again if he is once more put in jail. From this we can all derive strength...
...Meanwhile Chen Yi, who still holds the title of Foreign Minister, has all but faded from view. Last September, Li headed Peking's delegation to the funeral of Ho Chi Minh. Since Ho was a particular friend of Peking, Li's rank was significant. A few days later, he was in the group that met Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Peking Airport. Last month Li was the first Chinese official to make a statement on Richard Nixon's major address on Viet Nam. His line at the time was a tough one. He charged that "U.S. imperialism...