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KENNETH T. ROBINSON Lewiston...
Died. Josiah Red Wolf, 98, last survivor of the Nez Perce War of 1877; in Lewiston, Idaho. Red Wolf was four when Chief Joseph's people were relentlessly attacked by the U.S. Cavalry as they made their famous retreat across the wilds of Idaho and Montana. In a major battle at Big Hole Basin, Montana, many of the Nez Perces were killed, including Red Wolf's mother and sister. Finally, on Oct. 5, 1877, Chief Joseph surrendered to the cavalry in Montana's frigid Bear Paw Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands...
...LOST!" Goliath, Jack Johnson, Ali... the independent villain controlled at last. Ali was aware of this line of progression long before the fight with Frazier. Consciously, by adopting Johnson maneuvers like the "anchor" punch-the punch Ali used to knock out Liston in the Lewiston, Maine fight-and by creating devices of his own-the Ali Shuffle during the fight and the poetry before it-Ali has done much to revive John-it-Ali has done much to revive Johnson (could anyone imagine The Great White Hope as anything more than a cruel joke during Floyd Patterson's reign...
Muted Tone. Many of the Moratorium speakers had proposals of their own. The ideas were not necessarily new, but they stimulated talk and thought. In Lewiston, Me., Senator Edmund Muskie called for a standstill ceasefire, followed by orderly U.S. troop withdrawal. Senator Edward Kennedy muted the tone of his earlier criticism of the war to suit the Moratorium mood; for the first time, he asked that the President announce a fixed schedule for pulling out all ground combat forces within a year and all remaining Air Force and Army personnel by the end of 1972. In Washington, former U.N. Ambassador...
...turned into a melee, causing 22 injuries and leading to 57 arrests. Before the Christmas vacations, mass street fighting erupted among youths from Trenton's Central High, and mob violence hit Chicago's Waller and Englewood highs. An inexplicable dance-hall riot among 700 teen-agers in Lewiston, Me., was quickly quelled by police, who were conveniently on hand-the dance was sponsored by the local Police Athletic League...