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...raising the cremation issue, Protester Glinne is trying to get action on the egregious tax inequities that exist among the Six. But so far, the main effect of his campaign has been to stir new doubts about Common Market membership in Britain, where cremation is common. Britons already consider themselves too heavily taxed on their income to be expected to cough up for what they urn as well...
Addressing the Mayday coalition, the paper advised: "After you get finished making what you think is a revolution by playing in the traffic, and if you happen to avoid arrest, don't come back here crying 'repression!' and try to stir up Act Two of your kind of revolution. Some trashing and some attempts at stirring up the campus proletariat have gotten to be routine around here and they don't impress anybody. The activities of last week made up a legitimate and resounding demand for an immediate end to America's latest bungling overseas...
...National Palace, hallowed be thy name." He boasted that he was a statesman of the same caliber as Charles de Gaulle and demanded homage from his people, who were trucked into Port-au-Prince to sing and dance his praises in front of the palace. To stir up enthusiasm for himself, he would sometimes ride through the capital in his bulletproof Mercedes 600 limousine and stop to scatter money among the crowds...
...approaches to Haiti. Since the island's northwestern tip is only 50 miles away from Cuba across the Windward Passage, the U.S. is worried that Fidel Castro, who has been more bellicose than usual in recent weeks, may seize upon Duvalier's death as an opportunity to stir up trouble in Haiti...
...protesters wearing gas masks. Inside, his men set up a booth, complete with slides depicting auto pollution and pleas to car buffs: "The car is anti-city. It clogs our streets, fouls the air, assails our ears, devours our open space." The opening of the booth created a brief stir among the patrons and exhibitors; then everyone returned to serious business-admiring those new cars...