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Rumors were rife that the gang's supporters would go to extreme lengths to disrupt the trial. A Stockholm newspaper received a letter threatening "unusual actions," including an attack upon Stuttgart with rockets, flamethrowers and mustard gas, if amnesty was not granted. Since two quarts of the deadly gas had mysteriously disappeared from a North German army post a few days earlier, the government sent urgent instructions to all West German hospitals and private doctors on how to treat mustard-gas burns. Authorities were also alarmed when one of the defense lawyers representing the terrorists disappeared shortly before...
...next stop is one of three military bases in the U.S., where they wait for sponsorship in America. At one of those bases, Southern California's sprawling Camp Pendleton, Marines have thrown up a vast tent city amid the tough green scrub and yellow-mustard weeds. The Marines, who displayed superb organization in setting up the camp, rounded up three blankets for every refugee and issued each a hooded field jacket. The refugees organized a committee responsible for small personal needs, medical services and English-language courses. There was something hauntingly familiar about a Marine captain's remark...
Final proof that this was not your day would come during the seventh-inning stretch. While everyone else stood up to flex their cramped muscles, you grabbed one of the thirty-four thousand temporarily vacated seats to rest your aching legs, and accidentally crushed a Fenway Frank--mustard and all--in the process...
...TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in a kind of Big Mac analysis, "that you ask me for a cheeseburger and I flatly refuse to give it to you. You then say, 'O.K., don't give me the cheeseburger. But at least give me the bun. And perhaps the mustard and the cheese and the onion-and don't forget the meat.' That is how Israel is now trying to get what in effect would be nonbelligerency...
...record numbers for college or vocational courses to collect G.I. Bill benefits, which pay $270 a month for a single person. After collecting their food stamps at the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services, some of the unemployed stop at nearby vacant lots-to pick wild mustard greens. A laid-off Chrysler senior engineer, James Howard, 44, has become a Mr. Fixit, going round his neighborhood in Detroit to repair furnaces, rehabilitate appliances and install storm windows that he builds. Norman Sanders, 55, an unemployed electrician from Somerville, N.J., found a solution: "My two married sons...