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...ignores this, but giggles apprehensively about the infant Nazi Party: "The National Socialists are against the Socialists and also against the Nationalists." In an odd scene witnessed by the distracted chocolate manufacturer, Brownshirts throw bricks at the shopwindow of a Jewish butcher, but the bricks do not seem to shatter the glass...
Ominously, the raids by guerrillas loyal to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU), headed by Joshua Nkomo, appear to be aimed at new targets. Both black and white moderates have become priority victims?a tactic apparently intended to shatter the country's already sagging morale. In one of the most gruesome of such recent terrorist incidents, 39 black moderates of Sithole's faction who had been sent into the bush to convince dissidents that the transition was working were captured and executed; their bodies were then laid out by the guerrillas...
...pondered the little things that shatter human aspirations. Lee had been given some raspberries by Marylanders on his way to Gettysburg. He had eaten them and had an upset stomach. Had that figured in Lee's problems? "I'll tell you," smiled Carter, "I've been in Mexico when for a couple of days I could not have led anything...
...Cecil Taylor Orgy begins on Thursday May 4 at 6 a.m.--an unfortunate time since the jazz pianist's five-odd fans at Harvard may all be asleep and the people who make a habit of getting up at six may not want to shatter their routine by listening to the sometimes abrasive music of one of the foremost innovators of modern jazz. (Later in the day might be a good time to get an introduction to Taylor's work...
Buzzing through the Crimson defense like a dyspeptic bumblebee, Byrd picked up his 317th career assist in the first half to shatter the Columbia record set by Elliot Woolfe...