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When British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tom King arrived at Belfast city hall for a luncheon, he had to run a gauntlet of angry Protestants who pushed him, threw eggs and hurled insults. The Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the militantly Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, denounced King as "a white-livered cur" and "a yellow-bellied coward." On Saturday, tens of thousands of Protestants converged on the city hall, where they set aflame the Irish tricolor and an effigy of Thatcher...
...vandalism did not stop there. At about 7 a.m. some 50 activists, wearing masks and armed with steel pipes, stormed into the Asakusabashi station in the center of Toyko's wholesale district. They threw Molotov cocktails, torching and seriously damaging the platform and the stationmaster's office...
...would be released, Tamar Artzi, 24, rose from her seat. One of the hijackers aimed his pistol at her head and pulled the trigger. At the last second Artzi turned her head; miraculously, the bullet only grazed her cheek. Thinking her dead or mortally wounded, the gunmen threw her out of the plane onto the tarmac...
That impact, he says, along with two other major hits by either comets or asteroids around the same time, threw enough soot (from the resulting conflagrations) and debris into the atmosphere to blot out the sun for months. It was this catastrophe 38 million years ago, he says, that may have caused the great Eocene-Oligocene extinction, which was similar to the one that many scientists believe killed the dinosaurs 27 million years earlier...
Even as he threw rebellious students and workers into prison, Kadar ordered economists to diagram an overhaul for the country. "It was clear that centralized planning had failed," says Ivan T. Berend, president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. "If we were to provide a comfortable standard of living, market principles had to be introduced." Unstated by Hungarian authorities was the premise that in return for that comfort the population would live passively under Communist rule...