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...demonstrators were exhorted to press for worldwide disarmament by speakers ranging from Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta to Movie Director Orson Welles. The Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., long a prominent antiwar activist, declared the beginning of "the human century" and said, "The first order of the human century is to freeze the weapons so they won't burn the people...
DIED. Katsuko Tojo, 91, widow of Japan's World War II Prime Minister and Imperial Army commander, General Hideki Tojo; in Tokyo. Tojo, who was hanged in 1948 for war crimes, never discussed affairs of state with his wife, and she learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor (which he personally ordered) on the radio. She led a quiet life out of the public eye (though one son last year was named president of Mitsubishi Motors) and remained unwaveringly loyal to his memory...
MARRIED. Randolph A. Hearst, 66, chairman of the Hearst Corp. and president of the San Francisco Examiner, who divorced Patty's mother in 1979; and Maria Scruggs, 49, widow of a California real estate developer; both for the second time; in Hillsborough, Calif...
...only a movement in the Federal Republic. It started in the '60s in the U.S. Martin Luther King's widow was one of the symbolic figures of the West German peace movement last year. Of course, if you do away with the draft, your peace movement declines in volume. In a country where you have the draft, as in West Germany, as in Holland, as in other Continental countries, you have a greater potential for resistance. So you have taken the easy...
...Elected to the House of Representatives from Tennessee's Second District in 1950, Howard Baker Sr. served until his death in 1964; his widow, Irene Bailey Baker, won a special election and served the balance of his term until January...