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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hedda, for otherwise what is left is the story of a kind of grown-up "bad seed," a woman who out of casual malice or native bitchiness burns her would-be lover's brilliant manuscript, pushes him back to drink and gives him a pistol with instructions to shoot himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Prim and Pallid Hedda | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...Panthers claim that Sams is a police agent who engineered the murder of Alex Rackley, a Party member in good standing, in order to destroy the New Haven Chapter. The prosecution admits that it was Sams who actually commanded Kimbro and McLucas to abduct and shoot Rackley-allegedly on orders from "headquarters...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: The Focus Blurs on the Trial in New Haven | 2/26/1971 | See Source »

...chief problem. All told, 4,219 machines have been lost during the war, at least 1,928 of them in combat. Last week the Communist Pathet Lao's representative in Vientiane, Colonel Soth Pethrassy, said that the mountainous terrain in the Laos operation made it especially easy to shoot at U.S. helicopters. "We place three men on each hill, and when the helicopters come in low we can shoot at them in an almost horizontal line," he said. Soth might have been exaggerating his forces' efficiency. But in any case, it will be some time before the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Rough Time for the Choppers | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

This Lao charm confuses most Americans, even revolts them, since they insist on judging the Lao culture by American standards of "straightforwardness." "These folks sure don't shoot from the hip, do they now? Come to think of it, they might even shoot you in the back." For some reason Texans seem disproportionately represented in the Foreign Service...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: Keeping Colonial Laos Profitable | 2/17/1971 | See Source »

...Ohio before Kent by denouncing Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes as a tool of black revolutionaries and Communists, and by blaming permissiveness and a Communist conspiracy for ghetto riots. His Guard was one of the few in the nation which routinely carried live ammunition, and it had standing orders to shoot back at snipers...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: I.F. Stone: Exposing Kent State | 2/16/1971 | See Source »

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