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...anyone immediately behind the trio. As Aquino began to crumple, some one, I believe it was Mr. Galman, was warded off from the front of the group [as it headed toward the van] by the soldier wearing sun glasses, the left escort. Mr. Aquino had fallen forward to the pavement. Mr. Galman was standing at the rear corner of the van nearest me, his arms fully raised and holding a gun with two hands. It appeared someone was holding his wrists. The left escort fired at Galman from a squatting position near the body [of Aquino]. Galman's arms...
...year-old scholar fell on the pavement outside the church on his way to morning services...
Meanwhile ten times ten thousand men, women & children had gathered before the inaugural platform on the East Front of the Capitol. They blackened 40 acres of park and pavement. They sat on benches. They filled bare trees. They perched on roof tops. But for all the flags and music and ceremony, they were not a happy, carefree crowd. Their bank accounts were frozen by what amounted to a national moratorium. Many of them wondered how they could raise the cash to get home. Their mass spirits were as sombre as the grey sky above. Yet they remained doggedly hopeful that...
...price will preclude impulse buying? Gimmicks like this work only if they offer an easier alternative to the status quo. There is a special brand of arrogance in Harvard's assumption that, to every student, the "inconvenience" of spending $5.00 is negligible compared with the inconvenience of pavement pounding in search of classes. If binding the booklets cheaply and distributing them free is prohibitively expensive, the College should simply have them available through Lamont and House Libraries...
...persuade army troops to break ranks by dividing along sectarian lines. Such a development was not unexpected. Earlier hi the summer, a prominent Arab journalist in Beirut had predicted: "If the army has to fight the Shi'ites, it will break apart like a watermelon dropped on the pavement." Not only did the Lebanese army perform creditably last week, but, more important, it did not split apart. For the first time in eight years, the Lebanese government had an army that it could count upon...