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...nearby Berkeley, Mitterrand's French press corps reveled in the parade of West Coast characters: gay rights activists heckling Governor George Deukmejian, Hare Krishnas chanting in their saffron robes, all-purpose cranks going about their lonely protests. Declared one placard: ALL POLITICIANS, OF LEFT OR RIGHT, ARE PIGS. Every passing flake drew an appreciative "Oh, j'adore!" from the French entourage...
...walking along the sidewalk next to the 8-foot-high fence that separates the South Lawn from tourists and placard wavers seemed suspicious. When the Secret Service officers approached him, he allegedly reached into his coat and turned on them with a loaded 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun. One agent quickly drew his service revolver and fired, wounding the would-be gunman in the right...
Certainly, the Autry affair did nothing to improve the Supreme Court's reputation for orderly decision making. And it left some death-penalty proponents impatient. Outside the Huntsville prison Tuesday night, a crowd made up partly of boozy collegians had gathered (one placard: WE PAY FOR OUR BEER; NOW IT'S TIME FOR AUTRY TO PAY FOR HIS), and news of the stay was greeted with boos and chants of "Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!" Candle-bearing opponents of capital punishment applauded the outcome. Still, critics on both sides of the issue were disturbed by a process...
...told the crowd that "it tore my heart apart" to learn that her father, a member of the jetliner's crew, was never coming home. In Washington, Tryggvi McDonald, 22, eldest son of Georgia Democratic Congressman Larry McDonald, who was on the doomed flight, addressed a placard-waving rally of 750 people in Lafayette Square and later tried to deliver a letter of protest in person at the Soviet embassy; an embassy employee threw it away. Koreans staged demonstrations, some joined by local residents, in cities as distant from their homeland as Buenos Aires. In Paris, a crowd...
...conceived by Producer Ahn Kuk Jong, 39, as the final two-hour episode in a project commemorating the Korean War. His purpose: to convey the hardships suffered by families pulled apart in the conflict. People were selected to appear on-camera for about 15 seconds at a time, carrying placards inscribed with their names, the names of the missing and a brief description of how they were separated. Announcers read the placards to viewers while the cameras zoomed in on the faces of the searchers. Fourteen telephone lines were open, awaiting inquiries from viewers who thought they were being sought...