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...persuaded that he played a decisive part. Grechko apparently argued that Czech Party Chief Alexander Dubček's political liberalization program was unacceptable from Moscow's point of view and that only a military intervention would keep the country in the Communist orbit. Even today the bullet-riddled façade of Prague's National Museum is known among Czechs as a "fresco à la Grechko...
...Bullet pock marks on the outside and inside of houses along Sakhnin's main street, broken windows, battered cars and splotches of dried blood on the roadway grimly testify to the shootings of the previous day. But there was no way to verify the villagers' version of what triggered the tragedy. The government has stuck to its story that the villagers were attacked only after they had stoned the soldiers and blocked roadways with flaming tires. Probably the truth lies somewhere in between...
...hole, Longet returned to Sabich's house. Soon afterward, she phoned the Aspen Valley Hospital to report that there had been a shooting. Sheriffs officers, police and ambulance attendants found Sabich lying in the master bathroom, next to a sunken tub, mortally wounded by a single .22-cal. bullet in the abdomen. As Aspen Valley's Dr. Charles Williams related it, Longet "told police officers that he [Sabich] was showing me how to hold the gun and it went...
...Moscow incidents, which recalled a similar wave of harassment in 1971, seemed to be provoked by some anti-Soviet attacks in New York City: a bullet fired at a Russian residence, a bomb blast outside the Aeroflot office and an unexploded bomb found last week in a building housing the Soviet trade organization Amtorg. Though the militantly anti-Soviet Jewish Defense League has been responsible for some earlier outrages against Soviet officials in the U.S., another group called the Jewish Armed Resistance claimed credit, if that is the word, for the Amtorg bomb. While the New York incidents were certainly...
...means . . . sued, lied to or destroyed." The worst practices were dropped, but the sect did not become notably friendlier. "Black p.r." and "noisy investigations" (wellpublicized inquiries into the motives and backgrounds of critics) continue. Hubbard once spoke darkly of handling enemies via "Auditing Process R2-45," meaning a .45 bullet through the head, but this was just a joke, say his followers, and there are no accusations of any such terminal excommunications...