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...week's end, in any case, all thought of negotiation was blown away by a volley of I.R.A. bombs. First a freight train was blown up near Lurgan, 20 miles southwest of Belfast. Then a bomb went off in a Belfast bus station, killing at least four civilians and two British soldiers. Soon, in what was obviously a carefully planned operation, explosions were going off throughout the city. Among the targets: three bus terminals, a railway station, a garage, two highway bridges...
...building, while a spray of glass rained down from smashed windowpanes in nearby houses. As British soldiers in bulletproof vests and blue-coated Royal Ulster Constabulary men rushed up, a single rifle shot sent them diving for cover. Townspeople cowered in alleys and shop entrances. Then another volley of shots, and a man was dragged to safety. It turned out that he was an innocent passerby, caught in the crossfire like the rest of us. Fortunately, he was only...
...that was considered the best ever until Rosewall came along. Hit by Rosewall with a gracefulness that belies its guile and power, the stroke undid Laver in the closing exchanges of the last set. Throughout the match, Rosewall also employed two other great assets: a crisp and deftly angled volley, and an anticipation that turned some Laver bullets into boomerangs...
...correspondence begins straightforwardly enough on January 10, 1972 with a simple memo from Moos to Epps requesting Harvard facilities for "a Convention on Racism." (Note that in this early missive no preconceived normative judgements concerning racism are implied.) Little can be said about this opening volley; it would be unfair to infer a subtle threat when Moos continues the SDS tradition of relating better to administration buildings than to their occupants by saying: "I or other members of SDS would like to discuss costs and other arrangements with your office." One problem is that this is the only document...
...Surrender! Surrender!" shouted the Turkish commando colonel through a loudspeaker. The only answer from the small band of terrorists who were holed up in a shack near the mountainous Turkish village of Kizildere was a volley of gunfire and abuse. The guerrillas were members of a small extremist organization called the Turkish People's Liberation Army. Late last month, they had kidnaped three NATO radar technicians from a nearby Turkish air force base, and were holding them as hostages for the lives of three other terrorists who have been sentenced to die for the kidnaping-murder of an Israeli...