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...they were the longest minutes of my life." Israeli soldiers under a barrage of fire managed to reach the explosives and neutralize them. One of the three Palestinians was immediately killed by sniper fire. Another was wounded, but was still able to toss grenades and fire his automatic weapon pointblank at the screaming students...
...frumpy Gert is as disconcertingly direct as the belaying pin with which she flattens obstreperous patrons of her waterfront bar. If one of the seamen who frequent her place takes her sexual fancy, she issues a pointblank invitation to him to follow her upstairs. In recent months she has limited her favors to a virile ship's engineer named Harry, who possesses an unholy thirst and an unquenchable lust. Harry (Edward J. Moore) is as lean as Jack Sprat, and he and Gert (Conchata Ferrell) form the oddly discrepant, frantically energetic alliance of a harbor tug docking an ocean...
...CONFLICT WITH IRAQ. The first time [the Iraqis attacked], obviously we were taken by surprise. Tanks showed up and fired pointblank, but they did not really move on. Only the sacrifice of our boys saved the situation, and then we launched not a very heavy counterattack and they fled. [The Iraqis want] to keep their people busy; so they are always creating an imaginary enemy-how do you say?-a bogeyman? The second time they opened up with artillery, and they suffered very heavily when we counterattacked...
...Agnew himself did not escape consideration as the source of the resignation reports. He might simply have been seeking opinions, in Nixon's own devil's-advocate style, from a colleague who mistook his manner. On Aug. 15 in Denver, Agnew asked Republican National Committeeman Bill Daniels pointblank whether he should resign. (Says Daniels: "My direct answer to him was that if you're guilty you've got a problem, but if you're innocent, I would fight it to my dying day.") Or the report could have stemmed from a fleeting mood, his aides...
...would quickly be released from jail-his regime now has 6,000 of them behind bars-and he blamed the military for dragging its feet in letting them go. "I have given the military a deadline of the middle of [this] month," he asserted. "The military should tell me pointblank what evidence they have against these men. If they have none, then release them. If they have evidence, then go to trial. I talked to the Secretary of Defense yesterday and asked him to tell me exactly what they are doing about the detainees because my orders are very clear...