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...with a Nixon motorcade in San Francisco, he was hit by a police motorcycle. He took his wife to one political event, at Madison Square Garden. She made it through the police line easily without official credentials; he was detained, though he wore the laminated press card issued to newsmen only after they passed a federal security check...
...face of Bunker's efforts to ensure a fair election has proved a profound disappointment to the septuagenarian diplomat. He is on his last assignment, and the unwarranted blemish at the end of an otherwise superlative career hurts deeply. The pain was evident as Bunker met with newsmen, including TIME Correspondent Stan Cloud, who sent this report...
Slander and Insolence. None of the principals seemed to appreciate Bunker's efforts to salvage the wrecked election. The ambassador reportedly complained to newsmen that both Ky and Big Minh had told him that they would run only if the U.S. stepped in and bent the election in their favor; Minh noisily denied the story, accusing Bunker of "slander and insolence." For their part, Ky's aides said that the Vice President would go all out to destroy Thieu and "all his clique...
...belonged to the I.R.A. for 27 of his 51 years (twelve of them in prison, including 71 years for the murder, with five other men, of an Ulster policeman in 1942). Easily slipping across the border from the north, Cahill showed up in Dublin, where he told newsmen that his organization intended to shoot as many British soldiers in Northern Ireland as possible...
Pint-sized (5 ft. ¼ in.) Tally Palmer has long been known as a fighter. As consular officer in Leopoldville during the turbulent months that followed Congolese independence in 1960, she showed up time and again to save U.S. officials and newsmen from Congolese mobs. One of the men she rescued was Frank Carlucci, then a Foreign Service officer, now the newly appointed associate director of the Office of Management and Budget. Carlucci's car had killed a Congolese and skidded into a ditch, and both Carlucci and a U.S. military aide might well have been lynched if Tally...