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...Minister, was asked to arrange for the arrival of the bodies at a local mortuary. "As I expected," he writes, "they were bullet-riddled. The archbishop had been shot through the mouth and had three or four bullets in his chest." Doctors obliged Amin by writing in their post-mortem report, however, that the three had died of internal injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy in Books | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Therefore, Jesus was either a suicidal megalomaniac whose charisma has endured unaccountably for more than 1,950 post-mortem years, or he is, as claimed, divine Lord and Saviour. Any other claim is specious, so we must choose: belief or ridicule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1977 | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, scheduled to air March 19. Even such spin-off graduates as Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman were written into the farewell show. How to end it? New management fires everyone but Anchorman Ted Baxter (Ted Knight). At a post-taping, post-mortem dinner, Mary and the rest of the cast sat through the outtakes of lines that were blown over the years. Said one bemused cast member: "After watching that, it seemed a miracle we ever got on the air at all." Now that she's off, Moore plans to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 21, 1977 | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...elements. A young player did not perform up to potential, the reliable veteran came up lame, it was a cold spring training, the momentum was missing, and of course, the manager did not establish a good rapport with his players. This formula will work for a Red Sox post-mortem and is guaranteed to make you a hit at any cocktail party...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: The Red Sox in 1976: The Electric Scoreboard and Other Excuses | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

Despite the failure of the Christmas project, the endeavor did help to focus public attention on the Square, and it did bring residents together both in the pre-holiday fabrications and perhaps also in the post-mortem vilification of Smith. (Jerry Lane: "Another schmuck...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: There's more to Cambridge than Harvard Square | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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