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...next month Bagdikian took part in a symposium in which he defended the Post against accusations of racist coverage. But he also suggested that economic boycotts were the most effective way of influencing newspapers. Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee interpreted this as disloyalty, demanded Bagdikian's resignation, then tore it up after regaining his calm...
...explosive chemicals, assorted bombs, 11,000 rounds of ammunition, and more than 50 guns, including three machine guns. Deep in the Bogside, armored cars roared up narrow Stanley Walk to a green-doored house that had served as the Provisionals' local headquarters. The troops ransacked the house and tore up the floorboards, but found only a radio, some maps and part of a Browning machine gun. The Proves had vanished. In the Creggan estate, weapons were found in hedges or buried, sometimes unwrapped, in the ground-obviously abandoned in haste. Whitelaw himself had broadcast the warning that allowed I.R.A...
Near a village in Nam Ha province, said Öste, he visited a dike where 16 bombs fell-twelve of them delayed-action. One direct hit tore a hole in a dike that protects an area in which 400,000 people live. No military objectives were in sight, said Öste, not even a road. His conclusion: Washington was attempting to pass off the dike attacks to the U.S. public as "accidents" and "mistakes," while "at the same time making sure that Hanoi knows the attacks against the dams are a deliberate effort to force the Hanoi government to give...
...years. Instead of applause for Richard Wagner's music, there were hisses and catcalls -led off by an ear-shattering "No!" from the box of Dr. Alfons Goppel, Bavarian minister-president (equivalent of a U.S. Governor). Women lost their jewelry in the tumult, and one man furiously tore up $250 worth of tickets for subsequent performances...
...Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean parking gai ages. It all adds up, reports TIME Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, to Paris' biggest urban renewal since the 1850s, when Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann tore up much of the medieval town and started creating his city of symmetry, parks and long vistas...