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When Imelda Romualdez Marcos, wife of Philippine president Ferdinand E. Marcos and a member of his martial law cabinet, visited Tufts University in 1977, over 1000 protesters disrupted her visit and mobbed her as she left the university's grounds...
...debilitating end of the Boer War, three Australian soldiers are brought to court-martial. The charge: murdering some Boer "civilians" they have captured in a vengeful raid, along with a German missionary whose death has provoked a murmur of international reproach. The soldiers' commander, Lord Kitchener, wants to make an example of them so as to disarm world opinion about his unedifying conduct of a nasty...
...order has not been imposed with kid gloves. Martial law has been extended over the whole country. General Haydar Saltik, secretary-general of the junta, recently announced that 6,900 persons have been arrested since the takeover, 746 have been convicted by military courts, and three have been hanged-the first application of the death penalty in eight years. In at least nine cases, it has been suspected that detainees were tortured to death. Anxious to avoid blame for excessive, police-state brutality, however, the central authorities in each case launched an investigation and sacked eight of the local police...
...have grown up in Asian communities our alienation and culture shock are very painful. We are told that Chinatown is dirty, unsafe, and smells of garbage. We see that the only interests the majority society has taken in our communities have been in our restaurants, occasionally the martial arts, and now condominium conversion...
...Beat Crazy, Joe Jackson. Here's an example of how a basically middle-of-the-road, modestly talented songwriter picked up on the martial atmosphere in his recording studio. None of Jackson's new songs actually depicts war scenes, but tank-treads grind throughout the album. From the title track...