Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus mainly to get firsthand information on the disturbances. A former Guard sergeant, Michael Delaney, said that Rhodes had angrily ordered officials in to prevent even as many as two students from walking together on campus. Del Corso and Canterbury said it was the responsibility of troop unit leaders to decide whether guns should be loaded; the unit commanders testified that they had only followed orders from above. The most common defense of the Guardsmen was that students were rushing them just before they retaliated with gunfire. "I felt my life was in danger," claimed former Sgt. Lawrence Shafer...
...Easter Rising against the British: a bakery dominating the approaches to Central Dublin. "You have but one life to live and one death to die," he exhorted them. "See that you do both like men." They held out for almost a week, and were the last Republican unit to surrender...
...photographic film looked unfamiliar to cosmic-ray researchers. Last week, nearly two years after their equipment was brought back to earth, scientists from the universities of California and Houston finally offered an explanation. The unexpected particle, they said, was almost surely a magnetic monopole, the long-sought basic unit of magnetism...
Humoring Tito. In Yugoslavia, Soviet strategy seems to be to humor President Josip Broz Tito, who is 83 and ailing; a Mercedes ambulance outfitted with an emergency cardiac unit follows him wherever he goes within Yugoslavia. In the meantime, the Soviets are wooing as many of Tito's numerous would-be successors as possible. Rumania presents them with a far trickier problem. Ceauçescu is a healthy 57 and may well be around for some time. To be sure, he has his internal enemies, who resent his "personality cult," his nepotistic elevation of his wife...
...fines of $1.8 million. Donald Kennedy, now on leave as production director, faces a six-month jail sentence; James Jerram, former manager of quality control, could be jailed for four years. Jerram is on leave from Good Humor's parent, Thomas J. Lipton Inc., which is itself a unit of the Dutch-based multinational Unilever. Good Humor General Counsel David St. Clair says the company is "not guilty...