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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court yesterday granted a new trial to the three men convicted of the 1976 killing of Andrew P. Puopolo...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: High Court Grants New Trial To Convicts in Puopolo Killing | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

...question on the application asked students to list their "special abilities." Rob P. Inches '80 said he wrote fencing is his forte. "I can't really fence, but what the hell, I'm just in it for the good time," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nearly 800 Pack Lowell JCR, Audition for Bit Parts in Film | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

Another voter in favor of leaving the river's name as it is, David P. Matthews of Lexington, agreed, but for a more pointed reason: "Charles Ι was the first political leader to suffer the ultimate consequence of failure to address the problem of tax relief. Newly elected leaders on Beacon Hill would do well to let the River Charles serve as a constant reminder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Confronting a Curley $65,000 Question | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...well advertised. Tensions had been building up ever since Hanoi's forced expulsion of ethnic Chinese last spring, Viet Nam's lightning rout of Peking's client regime in Cambodia last month, and an intensifying series of incidents on the China-Viet Nam border. Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing repeatedly and publicly telegraphed the punch during his U.S. visit this month, railing against the "hegemonistic" ambitions of the Soviet "polar bear" and against Vietnamese "aggression" in Southeast Asia. Hanoi "has to be taught a necessary lesson," he warned. In Tokyo on his way home, Teng again pointedly talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Defense Minister Ustinov reaffirmed that the U.S.S.R. "will honor its obligations under the treaty of friendship and cooperation with Viet Nam." Official press and radio also charged the U.S. with connivance in the Chinese attack. Emphasizing that the Chinese invasion was launched "almost the next day" after Teng Hsiao-p'ing's return from Washington, Pravda protested that "no propaganda twists and turns will help cover up the responsibility of those circles in the U.S.A. that facilitated, directly or indirectly, Peking's actions." The attack on the U.S. was preposterous, but the Soviet ire was understandable and predictable. Nothing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

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