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...been no advance warning. Before the day was over, however, this had already become a less unusual characteristic of terror in Ireland. Outside a bar in the small border town of Monaghan, 80 miles north of Dublin, another bomb exploded without notice. At least five people were killed outright and 20 more wounded, most of them critically...
Chou, who was denounced outright by the extremist Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, has in past months been under oblique attack in the Chinese press. Last month the Peking Review carried an ostensibly historical essay on a 3rd century B.C. Prime Minister who wavered in the class struggle against the aristocracy and was "asked to return the seal of his office because of illness...
...early sign was the cons' new awareness of their legal rights. Courts had long kept hands off prisons on the theory that wardens and guards needed virtually unfettered freedom to control convict populations. But judges too had experienced their own consciousness raising and could no longer overlook outright brutality. If the right not to be barbarously treated was recognized, could other rights be far behind? The Black Muslims scored a major victory when they persuaded federal courts in 1961 to recognize their right to bring suit protecting their religion. Other legal challenges followed. In a series of state...
...could not help noticing how glibly you offered "the only alternative" to subsidies for Pan Am and TWA-"outright nationalization." There is another alternative: for Pan Am and TWA to cease overseas operations. If foreign countries want to burden their taxpayers with the unrecoverable costs of airline operations, let them do so. I see no reason why American taxpayers should also be victimized...
...Those cats are outright, stump-down, two-bit fascists," Seale said of Nixon's administration...