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...partly forgotten in one of the few ugly moments of May Day. After dark, a crowd of about 1,500 visitors faced a line of massed police and Guardsmen. They began throwing bottles and rocks, caught tear gas in return and dispersed after about an hour of confrontation. Seventeen demonstrators were arrested by the police, who never once charged into the crowd or swung clubs. Yale students wearing yellow headbands and some Panther marshals kept urging the rock throwers to move off the Green and back onto the campus. "There's nothing you can do here but hurt...
Although considered liberal among Big Ten schools, Michigan's student body is largely infected by Midwest conservatism. There are 36,700 students, with about 20,000 of those undergraduates, primarily in the college of Literature, Science and Arts (LSA). There are seventeen other schools and colleges in the University of Michigan...
...faction-plagued island, where Greeks often hate fellow Greeks as much as they do the minority Turks, the list of suspects in the murder was a long one. As Makarios' minister for police, intelligence and defense, Georgadjis made many enemies. Seventeen months ago, he was booted from the Cabinet after allegations that he was involved in a plot to murder Greek Premier George Papadopoulos (who was best man at Georgadjis' 1967 wedding). The Greeks insisted that Georgadjis had supplied the explosive with which assassins tried to blow up Papadopoulos' car. Georgadjis thereupon helped form the Unified Democratic...
...strong love for their countrymen and a burning hate for tinhorn dictators with rich American friends tried unsuccessfully to capture the barracks in an attempt to spark an insurrection which they though would topple Batista's government. There is a huge school now in the long, pink building with seventeen-year-old bullet holes still pock-marking its walls. That day the fourth-graders had filled a bulletin board with a photo exhibit of Vietnamese children. A few pictures showed kids staring blankly at the camera, their flesh grotesquely disfigured by Dow's napalm, but most of the shots were...
sixteen and seventeen...