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...HOLOCAUST, by Nora Levin; and WHILE SIX MILLION DIED, by Arthur D. Morse. The familiar chronicling of Nazi terror against European Jewry takes a grim turn closer to home with documentation showing that Allied governments, including the U.S., refused to take action to prevent the genocide...
...ground, on 7th Street and on 14th Street, what looked like cool smoke to the office-workers was hot fire to the blacks, the cops, and the firemen. Before the weekend was out, there would be 851 fires in Washington. Damage would be estimated at 13.3 million dollars. 645 buildings would be destroved, including 212 residential units. Ten persons would be killed, more than 1000 arrested. But on Friday afternoon, the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, things were just beginning...
...over 40 years, the Army subsidized the NRA's National Matches held in the summer at Camp Perry, Ohio. This year, President Johnson cut the appropriation for the National Matches, which last year cost the government $1.1 million, allegedly for economy reasons. The action followed a strong push led by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 to end a giveaway to an organization opposing the Administration's stand on gun laws...
Then the NRA went to battle against the tough Administration bill with all the formidable resources at its command. The association has a $9 million yearly budget financed by membership fees and advertising in the American Rifleman. With this money the NRA Washington headquarters at 1600 Rhode Island Avenue sends a constant stream of news releases to congressmen and notices to gun owners--all designed to cow congressmen into killing gun laws...
...moon, American scientists discover an identical black monolith, apparently buried over four million years before, completely inert save for the constant emission of a powerful radio signal directed toward Jupiter. The scientists examine it (touching it tentatively as the apes did) at a moment when the earth and sun are in conjunctive orbit. They conclude that some form of life on Jupiter may have placed the monolith there and, fourteen months later, an expedition is sent to Jupiter to investigate...