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...four carpenters who make up Apple Corps came of age in the '60s. Richard Gougeon served as a maintenance crewman on an admiral's plane during the Viet Nam War. Alex Ghiselin attended Dartmouth, worked for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign and later as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Ned Krutsky is a strong, silent type who got his education at a small Quaker college and a house in Haight-Ashbury. Jim Locke, son of a lawyer and a college dropout, built his first house from a "hippy-dippy how-to-do-it book...
...more circumspect in allowing other citizens to make their views about Soviet policy known. Before Gorbachev's arrival, thousands of Parisians took part in demonstrations protesting the treatment of Soviet Jews and the state of human rights not only in the U.S.S.R. but also in such client states as Viet Nam and Afghanistan. While Gorbachev and his wife attended their Elysee dinner, more than 1,000 people paid about $2.50 each to attend a screening of the U.S. movie Sakharov and to hear speeches by prominent emigres. Police arrested about 30 demonstrators, including Soviet Mathematician Leonid Plyushch, who defied...
DIED. Charles Collingwood, 68, debonair CBS radio and television correspondent who over four decades covered World War II, the White House and Viet Nam; of cancer; in New York City. Collingwood joined CBS in 1941 as part of Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's London team. He was the network's first U.N. correspondent and the first U.S. television newsman to visit North Viet Nam. In 1963 he won a Peabody Award for his televised tour of the White House with Jacqueline Kennedy...
...blocking the highway like elderly sheep and not even giving drivers the chance to speed and get caught fairly, driving cars which don't let on that they have police inside, and hiding like a Viet Cong inside an unmarked truck violate all the rules of the speeding game. Sleazy tactics like those are--pardon the pun--cop-outs...
...Jesse Jackson took up the issue of black-on-black violence. "All of the murders that we didn't react to set the stage for this one," said Jackson in his eulogy. "We are losing more lives in the streets of America than we lost in the jungles of Viet Nam. We must be as serious about ending the war at home as the war abroad." Yes, black-on-black violence is a black problem. But above all it is an American problem. Segregating it from the rest of American life, treating it as an ill-kept secret that...