Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soles and her friend--one of those movie females who starts very plain but steadily grows better-looking--slip into a local Ramones show despite the connivances of the fascistic principal. In the funniest scene of the movie, Soles invades the band's dressing room, forces on them some songs she's written, convinces them to visit Lombardi High the next day, and sheepishly leaves...
...officials in both countries have a persuasive reason to fear that Sindona really was abducted. Their clue: a Polaroid color snapshot of a scraggy Sindona as an apparent captive. It was delivered to the Rome office of Sindona's lawyer, Rodolfo Guzzi, in a plain envelope postmarked Sept. 8, Brooklyn, N.Y. It shows Sindona, gaunt and pale, hair unwashed and jowls unshaved, seated on a plain wooden chair. A cardboard sign covering his chest carries an ominous message crudely printed by his purported kidnapers: IL GIUSTO PROCESSO LO FAREMO NOI (The fair trial will be conducted...
...dismissed any suggestion of neutralization or of a conference. He emphasized that "it was his people's destiny not merely to take over South Viet Nam but to dominate the whole of Indochina. The boasts were made in secret, but the military moves that expressed these ambitions were plain to see." The moves began in February 1970, when the North Vietnamese launched an offensive on the Plain of Jars in Laos. On March 16 Le Duc Tho turned down an immediate de-escalation in Laos as well as in-or from-Cambodia...
...shock waves from the shooting of Darryl Williams, a black high school student from Jamaica Plain, hit members of the Harvard community this week...
...mayor made "an unequivocal rejection of all racial violence" Tuesday at Jamaica Plain High School...