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...sales tax from 5% to 3% and provide some relief from local real-estate taxes. And this time he may get what he wants. Opposition is wavering. Even Democratic Senator Thomas Dunn of Union County, a longtime income tax opponent, is reconsidering. The Governor, he said, "put a shotgun to our heads...
...About fifteen minutes later, police, state troopers and Sheriff's deputies stormed the campus. A state trooper tossed a tear gas canister into a large crowd of black students gathered on the steps of the administration building. The remaining officers fired indiscriminately into the crowd. Amid the terror of shotgun blasts, two black youths fell dead...
...victim of a young acquaintance with whom he had quarreled the day before. An 18-year-old was fatally shot by his sister after he threatened her with an ax. An elderly man, enraged because the windows of his house had been broken, rushed out the door with his shotgun and opened fire on three teenagers, killing one and wounding the others...
...ordered the mandatory searches for impeccable reasons: Aircraft hijacking was rampant (35 attempts in 1972), and the highly-touted Air Marshall program--1300 armed guards riding shotgun, incognito, on commercial flights--was considered expensive, ineffective and potentially dangerous to passengers' safety...
...PALOMA is a wonderfully mad shotgun wedding of high camp, movie mythology, bad taste, obsessive romanticism and impudent satire. It is also oddly -very oddly-moving; not innovative, perhaps, but quite unique. The second film of a young Swiss named Daniel Schmid, it is a reshaping of the story of Camille, with some strains from La Traviata thrown in for good measure. Imagine a hothouse hybrid of the work of Ken Russell and Roger Gorman, and the overstuffed, overcharged texture of the film can just be approximated. La Paloma is set in Europe of the 1930s as it might have...