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...claimed she "ignored the doctor's advice and wanted to move [Mao] from his sickbed, trying in vain to kill him." The deputy political commissar of Canton also denounced "the self-styled student of our leader"-a reference to the fact that Chiang Ch'ing's wreath at Mao's funeral had been signed "your student and comrade-in-arms." One wall poster in Shanghai bluntly accused Mao's widow-a onetime movie actress-with having been a prostitute in Shanghai in the 1930s...
...more important than the sum of money the Nobel Prize confers on its winners is the prestige that accompanies the laureate's wreath. So when ten Nobel prize-winners, including four from Harvard, last week accused President Ford of erroneously taking credit for the American sweep of this year's prizes, it was not surprising that their statement made national news...
...down Broad Way to wreak vengeance on the statue. Having drunk plenty of rum and ale, the crowd first pulled the royal horse from its pedestal, then hacked off the King's head, fired a musket shot into it, pounded away the nose and pried off the laurel wreath. With fife and drums playing The Rogue's March, the crowd carried off the mangled head, which eventually disappeared. The carcass is to be cut up and shipped to Connecticut, where patriotic women plan to melt the lead down into ammunition. Estimated result: more than 42,000 bullets with...
...mystery tourist. In Santiago, more than 3,000 cheering Chileans gathered outside the Hotel Carrera simply to catch a glimpse of the Secretary before he emerged to drive off to the OAS meeting. In Santa Cruz, a huge crowd mobbed his car when he drove to place a floral wreath at the monument of Bolivia's national hero, Ignacio Warnes. Bolivian President Hugo Banzer, in fact, paid Kissinger the ultimate tribute: prevented by protocol from greeting the Secretary on his arrival in the country, Banzer nonetheless donned civilian clothes, drove to the airport, and watched incognito as his famous...
Some Israelis were outraged that Vorster, who was interned by his own country during World War II as a Nazi sympathizer, was permitted to lay a wreath at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the 6 million dead of the holocaust. Israelis also recalled that before black African friendships dried up, their government consistently opposed apartheid. Premier David Ben-Gurion in 1961 condemned South Africa as a "deplorable regime of racial discrimination." When Israel later decided to give money to black liberation movements, the Pretoria government retaliated by blocking contributions to Israel from South Africa...