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...walls. But by the time that Air Force One landed at Tocumen International Airport, Torrijos' troops had chased the antitreaty students into hiding, and the government had brought thousands of supporters into Panama City, including peasants from rural provinces and Indians from the San Blas Islands. Several hundred schoolchildren, wearing yellow and brown uniforms, roared, "Viva Jimmy! Viva Omar!"as Carter embraced Torrijos on a flower-strewn red carpet. Later Carter told the crowd at the signing ceremony: "We, the people of the U.S., and you, the people of Panama, still have history to make together." Torrijos called...
...first victims of the new program was a 12-ft. gator that had become a favorite of schoolchildren in Green Cove Springs. Aghast officials called in a trapper after learning that the kids were serving up poodles and other neighborhood pets to their friend as snacks. Says Wildlife Biologist Tommy Hines: "He was not afraid of anybody. Every time somebody came up to him, he thought it was time for dinner...
Witty and energetic, he has great appeal among the young; he keeps a ventriloquist's dummy in his baronial office to entertain visiting schoolchildren. Kucinich has a large collection of comic books and has seen Star Wars six times. He is a master at manipulating the media. On the night that he edged out the official Democratic candidate for mayor by only 2,900 votes of the 180,000 cast, Kucinich was in the newsroom of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where he once worked as a copy boy. While photographers clicked their cameras, he sent the edited story...
...million people of China, few of Mao Tse-tung's actions proved more inscrutable than the ferocious campaign that the Chairman conducted against Confucius, the nation's exponent of moderation and ethical values. Schoolchildren were taught to denounce the philosopher, while their elders were obliged to chant imprecations against him in public demonstrations. Posters sprang up around the country portraying Confucius as a rapacious villain. One widely circulated comic strip showed a leering Confucius watching slaves being massacred. Red Guards stormed into the village of Chu Fu, where he was born 2,500 years ago, and destroyed...
...nearby Beit Sahur, where the local mayor said a similar assault occurred, the schoolchildren were luckier; their school had no second floor, so no students were injured as they tried to escape the gas fumes. A few miles away at all-Palestinian Bethlehem University, where a handful of students were protesting the Lebanon invasion by throwing stones over the wall to the street beyond, Israeli troops hurled gas canisters into the buildings. Of 150 students present, 26 were rounded up arbitrarily and fined $500 apiece...