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Captain Lawrence Orr de scribed Heath's plan as an "act of folly," and James Molyneaux charged that the Prime Minister had "done a Munich." The Unionists' opposition raised the possibility that they might retaliate by withholding their support on Common Market legis lation, thereby cutting into the Prime Minister's dan gerously thin majority on that issue. The Rev. Ian Paisley, a fiery Protestant leader and M.P., called from the Tory benches for complete integration of Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom. Right-wing Tories immediately cabled Queen Elizabeth, who was attending inde pendence-day celebrations...
Death Revealed. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewsky, 73, the Nazi SS general responsible for crushing the Polish resistance; of heart disease; in Munich on March 8. A close aide to Adolf Hitler, Bach-Zelewsky rose to the wartime command of the German forces combatting resistance movements in Eastern Europe. When the Warsaw underground rose in revolt in 1944, Bach-Zelewsky's forces slaughtered over 100,000 Poles and leveled 90% of the city. He escaped punishment by becoming a prosecution witness at the Nuremberg trials and testifying against his former SS comrades. In 1962, however, he was convicted...
...Gary Hall, also of Indians, won yet another title and broke yet another record. Swimming the distance in 1:51.50, Hall set now American and NCAA standards, and appears bound for Munich in this Olympic year...
...Long Beach swimmers won the NCAA college-division championships in 1968, and, after moving up to the university division, finished fifth in 1970 and 1971. He was assistant Olympic coach at Mexico City in 1968, coaching eight gold medal winners, and he will be back in Munich this fall. His Phillips 66 AAU team has won three consecutive long-course titles, and his swimmers have established 20 world records. It's been a long time since he has been used to finishing second, and there is no particular reason to believe he'll settle with being second at Harvard...
Track and field and swimming are among eleven sports open to women at the Olympic Games this summer in Munich. Men will compete in 22. There is further disparity in the number of events in each sport open to the sexes. In track and field, for instance, there are 24 events for men, only 14 for women (including two new events-the 1,500-meter run and 1,600-meter relay). Women used to get even shorter shrift. None were allowed to compete in anything at the first modern games in 1896. At the first ancient games, in Greece...