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Disarmament advocates made new pleas for a moratorium on testing MIRVs -clusters of independently targeted warheads atop a single missile, a new weapon that they fear will set off one more round in the seemingly endless arms race. The Pentagon, however, is anxious that American opinion-and the American delegation...
Whispering Campaign. Despite terrorist threats and pleas from Jordan radio to boycott the election, 10,000 of the 34,000 eligible Arab residents of East Jerusalem, the Jordanian sector of the city until 1967, showed up to vote in municipal elections. The Arab turnout helped return moderate Mayor Teddy Kollek...
...them and ordinary citizens ignore their pleas for help in the streets. Yet in California's San Mateo County, someone loves the police. In recent weeks, deputy sheriffs have been finding their squad car bumpers plastered with stickers that proclaim PIGS is BEAUTIFUL. But one just cannot please the cops. Assistant Sheriff Eugene Stewart said the slogan is a compliment-and ordered that the stickers be removed as rapidly as they appear. "These are publicly owned vehicles," he explained. "It is not appropriate to express a public opinion in this manner, one way or the other...
Residents of Santa Barbara so far have been unsuccessful in their attempt to convince officials to ban oil drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel, despite their pleas for "freedom from pollution."
Wave of Arrests. Mylonas was a member of the Center Union Party, a slightly left-of-center grouping that was the major target of the archconservative junta that took power in 1967. Arrested in August 1968, he was exiled to Amor-gos. He suffered from arthritis and circulatory problems, but...