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Pickering suffered a seizure at 9:45 a.m., and efforts by his classmates to prolong his life for 20 minutes until help arrived proved futile...
...Nixon would give the highest pri ority to battling inflation, even if his policies would prolong an uncomfortably steep rate of unemployment; McGovern would drive to restore full employment even at the risk of more inflation...
...fact, Park's real motive appears to have been to enhance and prolong his own power. There has been none of the political instability, social unrest or economic chaos that ordinarily precedes martial law. Park already had sweeping powers under a state of emergency declared last December. These powers, invoked on the grounds of an "imminent attack" from North Korea, were used to stifle the political opposition. His new action, moreover, appears to have increased tensions and imperiled the talks with North Korea-the opposite of his stated intentions. Radio Pyongyang last week charged that Park had acted...
...trial last August. The biggest issue preventing a Catholic reconciliation with the govern ment is internment, even though Whitelaw has released 377 of the 929 men originally held in prison camps. Last week Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, accused the Proves of trying to prolong internment by escalating their bombing cam paign. Said he: "There are still violent men in Northern Ireland who would be lost but " for the fact that internment continues...
...defensive system stretching across the DMZ to half North Vietnamese infiltration and thereby to force a cease-fire. The scientist who conceived it hoped it would hasten peace in Indochina. Instead it is being used over large areas of Cambodia and Laos, as well as Vietnam to prolong the war even while the troops come home...