Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face. Like the Harrises, "Adams" and the woman made a good first impression on their neighbors. Later, the couple were joined by a girl who was slighter and taller than the first. "Adams" generally left the apartment at about 10:30 in the morning, driving away in a station wagon and returning in the early afternoon. But the two women were rarely seen around the neighborhood...
Understandably, Mrs. Hearst was remembering the daughter she knew before the trouble began. Until Patty Hearst made her first truculent declaration of revolutionary fervor, read in a flat unemotional voice on seven tapes delivered to Berkeley radio station KFPA, she had shown few signs of anger at the System. Before her disappearance, she was taking part in the most traditional of rites for an engaged American girl: happily picking out her china pattern. Then, on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, Patty's life changed forever...
...schedule that seems to be a leisurely version of his old White House routine. Shortly before 9 a.m., conservatively suited and always wearing an American-flag pin in his lapel, he usually rides a golf cart the quarter-mile from his house to Building A, the former Coast Guard station that serves as his private office. There he makes telephone calls, reviews his most important pieces of mail and has lengthy conferences with aides about his memoirs...
...Lebanon from the country's largest refinery. Some scenes-the sight of Cardin-clad gentlemen siphoning off other people's tanks, for instance-would have been hilarious except for the potential violence. Sure enough, fistfights and near riots eventually erupted. There was a shootout between a gas station owner and a group of armed right-wing Christian Phalangists over fuel allocations; one man was killed, two more were wounded-and even more guns came out all over town...
...began one hot July night in 1963. Two white attendants at the Mo-Jo gas station, just outside Port St. Joe, were robbed, taken into the woods, told to lie down and then shot dead. Police learned that earlier in the evening a group of black men and women had been arguing with the attendants about using a whites-only restroom. Pitts and Lee, who were part of the group, were apparently beaten after their arrest, and they soon pleaded guilty. Once behind bars, though, they persisted in claiming they were innocent. Three years later while the two were still...