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...Willie Hamilton, who has made a career of being the scourge of all royals, great and small, fell under her spell. "For a fleeting moment my hatchet is buried, my venom dissipated," confessed the man who has called the royal family "goldplated scroungers." The zealous antimonarchist explained his truce by marveling at the Queen Mother's ability to combine "a love of the countryside, a passion for horses and dogs, an enthusiasm for angling -and, so it is said, a wholesome taste for a wee dram of her native Scotland's national beverage-harmless pleasures which have never...
...ANGELES: UNEASY TRUCE...
...city that endured the Watts riots of 1965, in which 28 blacks and six others were killed, only an uneasy truce prevails between nearly a million blacks and two traditional sources of racial friction: the police force and the school board. The fact that Mayor Thomas Bradley is black has helped to moderate the clashes, but the City of Angels is no heavenly haven for its blacks...
...order at the grass roots. Teams of youths, for example, canvassed the streets to induce people to turn in their weapons; they succeeded in collecting more than half of those that had been seized. Community leaders, meanwhile, met with government officials and army commanders to try to negotiate a truce. Spokesmen for the townspeople lodged a series of specific demands: that the government keep its troops outside Kwangju until order is restored, that it compensate families of the dead and wounded and that it refrain from retaliating against the rioters. Initial negotiations did not produce a settlement, but at least...
...nailed together swiftly, ending a government crisis of only 16 days, one of the briefest on record. The speed was also due to President Alessandro Pertini, 83. Following the collapse of Cossiga's fragile minority "government of truce" last month, he urgently summoned Cossiga, even though it was Sunday, and asked him to try again to form a government. "The unemployed don't stop worrying on Sunday," explained Pertini, "nor do the Red Brigades stop shooting...