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Although the Saturday stabbing outside Out-of-Town-News is considered a rare event for the University's backyard, Paolillo said that two officers, a sergeant, and a car normally patrol Harvard Square after 9 p.m. on weekends. No increase in crime has been reported recently and greater security for the Square is not necessary, he added...
Even before the hanging, violence had begun to boil up in other parts of the country. In Athlone, a colored (mixed-race) suburb of Cape Town, police and residents engaged in a rare gun battle at a local mosque; one colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed...
White began his half-century affiliation with The New Yorker in 1925, contributing sketches, poems, and humorous essays like the "Go Climb a Tree Department." In 1929 he married Katharine Sergeant Angell, The New Yorker's first fiction editor...
...cancellation will probably mean layoffs for many of the 1,900 workers at the Ford Aerospace plant in Newport Beach, Calif. Financial analysts expect the parent Ford Motor Co. to weather the loss of the contract. Meanwhile, the Army must search for a suitable replacement to take on the Sergeant York's intended air-defense duties. Said Weinberger: "A decision to cancel what is basically an ineffective system doesn't eliminate the need...
Another reputation that may have been on the line in the Sergeant York decision was Weinberger's. "Killing the DIVAD was vital to saving any fig leaf of Weinberger's viability on the Hill," said one senior congressional aide. Legislators have been pressuring the Secretary to cut marginal Pentagon programs to help alleviate the federal deficit crisis. Said Congressman Denny Smith of Oregon, a Viet Nam War veteran and a longtime opponent of the Sergeant York: "My congratulations to Secretary Weinberger for a courageous decision. Too bad he waited so long...