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...Almost uglier than the flames were the rumors infecting the Central Ward next day and threatening to destroy the new mood of conciliation. The fire, they said, was the work of white arsonists bent on genocide rather than mere homicide. The fire department's arson squad meantime was questioning more than 50 residents in the area of the fire...
...were pushing them from the rear and sides. The mass of marchers unavoidably spilled into the police lines, and when they did, they were beaten again. After half an hour, the demonstrators' monitors started to disperse the moiling crowds and avert what might soon have become a far uglier scene than its pacific entrepreneurs ever envisaged...
...that can only be fought and won at such a terrible human cost ought not to be fought at all? May I just say very briefly that I don't want to be told that this war is ugly and that all wars are ugly. Some wars are uglier than others and this one is the ugliest in the history of our country...
...some investors and mutual-fund salesmen are concerned, one of the uglier ornaments was a rider tightening up Section 351 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code. It ruled out the establishment of any exchange funds or-as they are more commonly known-swap funds that had not been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission before last...
...trouble started with a noisy political rally in the capital of Managua, where Conservative Party Candidate Fernando Aguero harangued some 30,000 of his followers and called upon the country's 5,000-man army to join his anti-Somoza movement. As the crowd's mood grew uglier, troops moved in with rifle butts and bayonets. Before long, both sides were shooting. The highly emotional Aguero and 1,200 of his followers, mostly peasants just in from the country, fled to the nearby Gran Hotel, where they took 117 guests as hostages, including 89 Americans. For 24 hours...