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...Mexico City student uprisings that preceded the 1968 Olympic Games. Echeverria was Minister of the Interior under outgoing President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz when those riots erupted: at least 33 people were shot to death and 500 wounded by police and soldiers. Campus unrest could well plague Echeverria throughout his six-year term, particularly with 150 people still in prison as a result of the 1968 riots...
...this was heavy stuff indeed compared to Keith, who stated early in the campaign that a congressman shouldn't have to an opinion on everything, and his primary opponent, State Senator William D. Weeks, whose principle achievement in a six-year legislative career was sponsoring a bill making cranberry juice the official state drink, and who stated as one of the three reasons he ran for Congress the need for an electronic vote counter in the House chamber...
...with those who guard me from others-and who guard others from me." Thus begin the reminiscences of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who was the most powerful man in the Soviet Union from 1955 until his downfall in 1964. Khrushchev's rather forlorn comment on his enforced six-year silence is all the more poignant coming from a man who stood for so long at the center of history. At week's end the ex-Premier, 76, was admitted to a Moscow hospital, reportedly suffering from his second heart attack this year...
...first 12 months of the six-year, $50 million drive, the fund has raised $1 million. McKnight said he will try to meet Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennet, overseer of Harvard's $1 billion endowment, next week to sound out Harvard's interest in purchasing shares of the SCDP...
...hundreds of celebrating Chileans eagerly obeyed the injunction. For two escudos (14?) apiece, they pitched darts at an 8-ft.-high wooden image of Uncle Sam in full flight, clutching money-stuffed suitcases labeled "Chilean copper." As Chile's Dr. Salvador Allende was inaugurated last week for a six-year term as the world's first freely elected Marxist President, a mood of anti-Americanism prevailed...