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With lion dances, fireworks and displays of martial arts, residents of Boston's Chinatown ushered in the Year of the Horse in a traditional New Year's celebration last Sunday...
...main events were the lion dances. Members of local martial arts clubs, trained in the special movements of the dance, donned colorful costumes and performed at each storefront. Yon G. Lee, director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Brighton, explains that the lion symbolizes a good spirit, capable of clearing the air of evil, and the dance itself represent youth and vitality, transmitting energy to all who watch...
...terrorist activity reached its height in Canada's October Crisis of 1970. F.L.Q. gunmen kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James ("Jasper") Cross and Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, eventually murdering the latter. Prime Minister Trudeau invoked Canada's 1914 War Measures Act, placing the entire country under martial law. Quebeckers were deeply traumatized by the presence of gun-toting soldiers in their midst, but an overwhelming majority approved the harsh antiterrorist measures...
...Howard Cosell of the legal game is Louis Nizer, 75, a distinguished New York lawyer whose reportage can make the driest case read like The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Two previous books based on his own courtroom experiences, My Life in Court and The Jury Returns, were longtime bestsellers. Nizer represented Journalist Quentin Reynolds in a successful libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, and the account was exciting enough to be made into a Broadway play and a TV drama. The present volume suffers greatly by comparison. Part autobiography, part a philosophical guide to the law, it is mostly leftovers...
Disini, of course, is not the only Filipino who has been known to profit from a personal relationship with Marcos. Since the President imposed martial law in 1972, his relatives and cronies, as well as those of his glamorous wife Imelda, the governor of Manila, have been amassing huge fortunes. Their blatant influence peddling has prompted one amazed diplomat in Manila to observe: "It's incredible what they've taken over." Marcos' sister Elizabeth Marcos Keon, for example, is governor of Ilocos Norte province, and Benjamin ("Kokoy") Romualdez, Imelda's brother, who owns the Times Journal...