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...retrospect, the Socialist tidal wave in the legislative elections makes sense. Voters, whether to the Right or Left, believe it is better to have a Socialist representative who, at the very least, will be heeded by a friendly government, than an outcast conservative. What is more, thanks to years of preaching from the Right, the French feel that the legislature should reflect the executive so that the latter can implement its policies as smoothly as possible...
Navy officials had already begun a study, which they were soon forced to broaden. Word of the Trerice death had produced a tidal wave of tales of naval abuse. Ex-Ranger Crewman Neil Hodgson, 18, of Detroit, claimed that a beating in the ship's CCU left him with a ruptured eardrum. Fellow Veteran Steve Richards, 27, also of Detroit, said he received a 13-stitch leg wound there. The two joined another pair of Ranger sailors in suing the Navy for brutality and violation of their rights. A third suit may be filed by the Rev. Robert Mercer...
...insanity. Arkansas' Wilbur Mills began behaving strangely in public with an exotic dancer called the Argentine Firecracker. When he recovered himself for a moment, he told his constituents it all came from drinking champagne with foreigners. But then he landed with the Fire cracker at Washington's Tidal Basin in the middle of the night. Mills got hold of himself, acknowledged to himself and everyone else that he was an alcoholic, and sought treatment...
...John Scheft, making his golfing debut after recovering from a head wound suffered while playing intramural softball...Alexander reported that roommate Scheft played exceptionally well on the second, third, and fourth holes, eventually posting an exceptional score over the other 14.. Scheft was unavailable for comment pending the tidal wave of Nat Sci 124 term papers scheduled for today...
Only two ago, a tidal wave of Vietnamese refugees seemed to have engulfed all of Southeast Asia. Arriving in frail fishing craft in the waters of Thailand, Malaysia and other countries that proved incapable of or unwilling to shelter all of them, they were known as the boat people. They seemed to be the ultimate casualties of the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. Peasants and fisherfolk, small shopkeepers and traders, as well as former soldiers of Saigon's army, they fled the oppressive Hanoi regime in increasing numbers. Soon the exodus was joined by hundreds of thousands of ethnic...