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...more specific information. I think everyone concerned with the future of the Cambridge community should know (1) whether the library/museum will or will not be built in Cambridge and what stage the negotiations are at; (2) what citizens can do to prevent the building of the library/museum and the onslaught of tourism it will bring. Political and monetary power can commit quiet outrages unless the public is informed and can act to defend its own interests. S.M. Smith
Near the end of the half, B.C. had recovered from the shock of the Harvard onslaught well enough to mount an attack...
...night terrorists scattered more than 50 bombs round Buenos Aires, mainly at automobile showrooms, banks and financial companies. Two men, including a policeman who was trying to dismantle a bomb when it exploded, were killed and several others wounded. Next night, before the city had recovered from the first onslaught, 60 more bombs were planted. Earlier that day the bullet-riddled body of Atilio López, a leftist labor leader and former provincial vice governor, was discovered along a highway 45 miles from the capital. The following afternoon Alejandro Bartosch, a police physician, was shot to death...
...onslaught was led by a bizarre alliance of Communist and Latin American countries. According to these delegations, overpopulation is a myth invented by the rich to exploit and subjugate the poor. Soviet Deputy Minister of Health Lev Volodarsky contended that high population-growth rates have "nothing to do with the real reason for backwardness and only serve to distract attention from needed social reforms." Huang Shu-tse, Deputy Minister of Health for China, which has the world's greatest population (800 million), declared that development lags were caused by exploitation by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...cats. Said Butz in a speech to the American Society of Animal Science: "If some of those ill-informed, fuzzy-thinking do-gooders who suggest that we eat one less hamburger per week to release more foodstuffs to the world are really serious ... they could make the first onslaught on this noble goal by reducing our dog and cat population by 50%." Of course, Butz added, "I do not advocate such a thing...