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Earlier, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman had warned that in the future, police antiriot squads would be permitted to disperse crowds by firing plastic bullets and using tear gas. Both weapons are employed by British troops stationed in Northern Ireland but have never been used elsewhere in Britain. Said a determined Newman: "Officers deployed in such grave situations look to me for reasonable protection. They must and will have it. Anarchy cannot be allowed to prevail...
State officials expect to break ground for the construction of the Kennedy Memorial Park by the first week of November, Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) officials said last week...
Demand for New York's cultural offerings has tested the resourcefulness of the U.N. staff, which was able last week to produce, on short notice, tickets to the opening night of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera for Poland's Jaruzelski. New York hotels are braced for the onslaught. The venerable Waldorf-Astoria, well trained in the care and feeding of outsize egos (Frank Sinatra and Lee Iacocca maintain permanent residences in the Waldorf Towers), employs a "flagman," whose sole duty is to keep track of the 115 foreign flags that the hotel keeps on hand and to fly the right...
...Metropolitan Life...
...METROPOLITAN DISTRICT Commission (MDC) is all washed...