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...groom, who ran for their lives. As Israeli police returned the fire, the fedayeen ducked into the 28-room Savoy Hotel on Ge'ula Street, where they took hostage a dozen surprised guests. By the tune Israeli paratroopers liberated the four-story building in a carefully coordinated predawn raid, seven of the fedayeen had died, along with eight hostages and three Israeli soldiers. Eleven other persons were wounded...
Residents of the wooded resort country round Big Moose, N. Y. (population about 150), awoke one morning last May to find they had some new neighbors. In the predawn hours, a band of Indians had taken over a 612-acre former girls' camp, now a forest preserve in New York's Adirondack State Park. They claimed the camp land and, thinking big, some 9 million additional acres in New York and Vermont, as Ganienkeh-the Land of the Flint, an independent Indian nation. Since then, to the frustration of state authorities and the growing anxiety of Big Moose...
...Barrow as a teen-ager in the early 1930s and served six years in prison as their accomplice in the murder of a Texas deputy sheriff, but later claimed that the pair had threatened to kill him if he tried to leave them; of a shotgun blast in a predawn quarrel with an acquaintance; in Houston...
Last week Velasco's regime struck again, this time expropriating Lima's five remaining independent newspapers. In predawn raids, police carrying submachine guns invaded the newsrooms of the papers, including Peru's oldest and most prestigious daily, El Comercio, and pulled the front and editorial pages off the presses. Then the government's own hand-picked editors, who had followed the police onto the premises, proceeded to pull freshly minted editorials from their pockets proclaiming the takeover as "a new day of freedom...
...evade the main allegation against him, and admits that he used a felt-tipped pen to darken the skins of two of the 18 mice that he showed to Institute Director Robert A. Good on March 26. But he denies that this "irrational act," which followed a festive predawn breakfast of crepes and champagne, represented a willful attempt to deceive his colleagues into believing that he had grafted black skin onto white animals. He also insists that his reports of successfully transplanting cultured human corneas into rabbits were not deliberately misleading. Instead, Summerlin says, they were based on the erroneous...