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...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Murder in a seaport city with Jack Lord and Shirley Knight...
...rioters were some 380 Malays, members of a 470-man recruit-training company of Singapore's snappy Local Defense Corps, a military unit that guards power plants and government buildings in the tiny Asian seaport state. Though Singapore's population of nearly 2,000,000 is four-fifths Chinese, half of its cops and soldiers come from the 270,000 Malays, who comprise a jealous and often violent minority. Hence, when a Chinese Defense Corps major last week ordered the recruit company to split up by race and then dismissed the Malays from military service, the amok mechanism...
...recently recorded an erosion of support for Wilson's Labor government, and things were not improved by the usual irritants of winter. All in all, it was a bad time for a test at the ballot box, but Wilson had called a by-election in the Yorkshire seaport of Hull, where in 1964 the Labor candidate had won by a mere 1,181 votes. Should the Hull seat be lost to the Tories, Wilson's majority in Commons would drop to a single vote...
...much for the opposition, and off it went on a violent rampage that has flared sporadically ever since. Homes, shops and autombiles were put to the torch, and hundreds of pro-North sympathizers were tortured and killed. Last week, when Commonwealth nations gathered in Nigeria's seaport capital of Lagos to discuss the Rhodesia question, they found a city under siege. Extra police patrolled the downtown area, and roads were littered with charred automobiles. Then, shortly after Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrived back in England, all cable, telephone and radio communications out of Nigeria suddenly blinked...
...grey, gull-studded morning of Dec. 1, 1825, the Azov seaport of Taganrog echoed to the tolling of death bells. Alexander I, conqueror of Napoleon, keystone of the Holy Alliance, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, was dead at 48. With him had passed the hopes of the peasantry for reforms and freedoms that he had long espoused; after him came an era of intermittent repression and misrule that led finally to the Bolshevik Revolution. But had Alexander really died? Last week in Moscow, a Soviet writer once again exhumed a 140-year-old legend that Alexander faked...