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...victory in Ulster, marched outside the walls of the Catholic Bogside ghetto, shouting taunts--obscenities and slurs against the Pope--and showering pennies down on the Catholics from above the wall. The Protestant taunts elicited a barrage of stones from the Catholics--and the fracas quickly evolved into the week-long battle of Bogside. The first nine deaths of the conflict came here. And soon afterwards, British troops were introduced into Ulster...
...continue to support "armed struggle by the gallant freedom fighters of Zimbabwe [the black African name for Rhodesia] until the day independence is achieved." Ian Smith was grousing that Kissinger's package deal included an end to guerrilla warfare and international sanctions. To make matters worse, after a week-long conference in Mozambique, Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, rival leaders of nationalist factions, claimed to have cemented their differences in a new "Patriotic Front." Rejecting the Kissinger proposals as a basis for discussion, the two black leaders demanded that the conference in Geneva be postponed. While agreeing to attend...
...week-long Jacaranda Festival is in full swing. The thoroughbreds are running at the Borrowdale Race Course, the stores are holding sales, and whites out in the suburbs are talking about filling their swimming pools again. Yet there is a definite undercurrent of foreboding. At the annual Jacaranda Parade, which featured the usual floats and miniskirted majorettes (both black and white), a white housewife said calmly: "We won't see many more of these. The blacks won't bother with parades. They take too much effort and organization...
Private Scores. The week-long rioting had taken a fearful toll: at least 176 dead (all but two of them black) and 1,139 injured. Another 1,298 blacks were arrested, and property damage was estimated at $40 million. Police sought to blame many of the casualties on black tsotsis (hooligans), who undoubtedly did seize on the disorders to settle some private scores, but most observers considered the police claims highly exaggerated. Said one white eyewitness who was in Soweto last week: "It was obvious that the police weren't there to practice crowd control but to kill...
Yellin, who along with the rest of the team had just returned from a week-long layoff, seemed to regain her timing in the next set. Roberts fell behind, 5-2, before pulling out a clutch 7-5 match-winning victory...