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...Crimson's Tim Maximoff, Jack Gauthier, and Steve Schramm all broke Hopkins pool records during the early slaughter. Maximoff followed Harvard's victorious medley relay with his standard-breaker (16:04.48) in the 1,650-yd. freestyle to give the Crimson a 12-4 cushion after two events...
...army fired directly into demonstrators gathered around 24 Esfand Square, near the university, and sniped at them from nearby rooftops for nearly four hours. By the end of the afternoon, there were 30 known dead and hundreds wounded; hospitals were jammed with the dying (see box). Bakhtiar defended the slaughter, which followed a similar assault two days earlier, as a retaliation by the army for an attack on police headquarters by civilians armed with machine guns. But in fact no eyewitness had seen the police building being assaulted...
Meanwhile, other even more mysterious forces inside Iran were stirring up trouble. Several news agencies received warnings from a group calling itself the "Commando Organization of the Warriors of the Constitution." They threatened "guerrilla warfare" and "unprecedented slaughter" if the 1906 royalist constitution were overturned. These self-styled warriors also threatened to assassinate anyone who joined the Ayatullah's revolutionary council. Khomeini loyalists charged that provocateurs?suspected of being either agents of SAVAK or underground Communists, who have the most to gain from chaos?were inciting violence. Gangs of street toughs burned down a beer factory, a nightclub, and numerous...
Judging from a viewing of the first four plays, however, editing has been judicious, more the neat excision of a few lines here and there than the slaughter of whole scenes, a violence often done to Shakespeare. With some notable exceptions, the performances range from competent to brilliant, and a whole stable of Britain's fine character actors trot through the familiar minor parts: John Gielgud as the righteous John of Gaunt, Celia Johnson as Juliet's nurse and Michael Hordern as her father...
...series, which had been dubbed in German, unnecessarily reopened old wounds. But then came a cathartic outpouring of soul searching, similar to the one that emerged in the U.S. after Roots was shown. Young people were appalled to be reminded that many of their elders had not protested the slaughter. "How and why could this sort of thing happen?" asked one horrified young viewer. "Where were the churches? Why did they not protest? Why was there no resistance?" Those who had lived through Hitler's reign reproached themselves. Said a Frankfurt book salesman: "I'm forever ashamed...