Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...client, a $300,000 lawsuit against the 900-member group. Synanon, founded by Dederich 20 years ago as a rehabilitation organization for alcoholics and drug addicts, had done worthy work, but in recent years had become a capriciously governed and toughly disciplined cult. Soon after the snake attack, police arrested two suspects: Synanon Members Joseph Musico, 28, and Lance Kenton, 20, the son of Bandleader Stan Kenton. Synanon has steadfastly maintained that it "had no involvement in the attack...
...ostensibly affirming Western-style press freedoms. Though U.S. delegates would have preferred no declaration, they found the weakened version acceptable. Observed Newsday President William Attwood, a U.S. media representative on the American delegation: "If there's a reptile in the house, far better to have it a garter snake than a rattlesnake." Third World delegates also praised the compromise that M'Bow, as one of their own, had put together, but they continued to call for a "new world information order" more favorable to developing nations than the existing...
...Beginner Books; $3.50) again features "the Cat in the Hat," a feline who speaks in the universal language of childhood, whimsy: "You'll learn about Jake the Pillow Snake, and all about Foo-Foo the Snoo." Here, as in more than 30 previous books, the doctor proves to be an eye and ear specialist. His deceptively simple jingle is designed to be heard and inspected repeatedly until the rhythms awaken children to the delights of rhyme and the rewards of literacy...
...trembling of his hands as he read his statement. The tough race had humbled a normally proud man." After Philadelphians defeated a proposal that would have allowed Mayor Frank Rizzo to seek a third term, New York Correspondent Robert Parker visited the headquarters of the victors and watched "snake dances with revelers flashing signs, DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD." At Governor Jerry Brown's re-election party in Los Angeles, Correspondent Joe Kane observed while celebrants, dressed in costumes ranging from knickers to gold lamè, absorbed mariachi music. "To top it all off," says Kane, "an Arab...
...long Uganda can sustain this invasion is another matter. Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere launched a massive counterattack, vowing that his 27,000-man, Chinese-and Russian-supplied military force would strike the invaders "until we have finally gotten rid of this snake from our house." Thousands of cheering Tanzanians gathered in Dar es Salaam to urge on Nyerere's army, which commandeered buses, Land Rovers and trucks to drive to the front, 850 miles away. But Nyerere reportedly was compelled to ground his air force after Tanzanian soldiers shot down five of their own MiG fighters, mistaking them...