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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Facing black community protest, Rhoades last summer fired Officer Peter F. Morgan for fatally shooting an unarmed black shoplifting suspect the previous Christmas Eve. The following week the county police union gave Rhoades a unanimous vote of no-confidence...

Author: By Lisa A. Newman, | Title: A Maryland County Goes on Trial | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...second suspect was a nondescript, self-styled "technical consultant" with a clipped British accent who arrived from Geneva a fortnight ago. He used the name Peter Scriver and carried British passport number 260896. After checking into the Hotel Mediterrannee in west Beirut, he rented a Volkswagen from the Lenacar agency. At about the same time, a blond, friendly man who called himself Roland Kolberg and carried Canadian passport number DS 104277 checked into the Royal Gardens Hotel, also in west Beirut, and rented a gray Simca, also from Lenacar Kolberg said he was a sales representative tor Regent Sheffield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Death of a Terrorist | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

...less impoverished, neighbor. In each case Ellello*u shows a flair for the dramatic--beheading the first, incinerating the second atop a huge pyramid of offered breakfast cereal and potato chips--but little sense of the inevitable. It is only after the drought worsens that Ellello*u begins to suspect that he might be the desired sacrifice...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Updike Unloosed | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

...timing was a surprise, but the move itself was not unexpected. "It is because Don is ready and I am ready," Kay Graham told the staff. "Actually, I suspect Don was ready before I was ready." Mrs. Graham, 61, who had run the paper since her husband Philip's suicide in 1963, remains chairman, chief executive and majority stockholder of the Post Co., which also owns Newsweek, papers in Trenton, N.J., and Everett, Wash., and four TV stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Post Haste | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

Just what would convince you, Mr. Calkins? Nothing, I suspect. I've been writing a paper on authoritarianism and I've run across something called the "leadership principle," whereby even if the voting public turns against him, the Leader continues to represent the "objective will of the people." If this is how you really feel, then why not just come right out and say so? I don't know anyone who is fooled by your rhetoric about the Corporation's commitment to "free and open debate" anyway. Peter Sacks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Majority | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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