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...Welfare. Shedding no light on the mysterious "they," Evers charged people who are out to get him with a "long process of harassment and intimidation" dating back to 1963. That was the year his brother Medgar was slain by a sniper's bullet and Charles returned to Mississippi from Chicago to succeed him as field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Charles spearheaded a drive that registered 250,000 black voters, and in 1969 became the first black mayor of a biracial Mississippi town since Reconstruction. In 1971 he ran for Governor but lost...
...least part of the movie's interest lies in the fact that Serpico was a real cop, whose allegations and testimony of police corruption lead to the creation of the Knapp Commission investigation of New York's finest. And as in the movie, Serpico ended his career with a bullet in his head--just barely escaping with his life-received under rather questionable circumstances during a narcotics raid for the NYPD...
Nixon's trip involved risks, of course, not the least of which was the danger of an assassin's bullet. On the President's first day in Egypt, Palestinian terrorists on a suicide mission raided an Israeli farming settlement and killed three women (see THE WORLD). Said a terrorist spokesman: "This is how every Arab should receive Nixon, the chief imperialist in the world." There were fears that there might be further terrorist "spectaculars" this week during the Israeli and Jordanian portions of the tour, and everywhere Nixon went security precautions were extraordinary...
...Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army rifle...
Streak Hitting. Though once a sloppy defenseman, Rightfielder Jackson now makes a habit of circus catches and bullet throws to the infield and home. Last October Jackson tormented the New York Mets in the World Series as he led the A's in hitting and spectacular outfield defense. For his efforts, he was named Most Valuable Player of the league and the series. The awards merely underscored what everyone in baseball already knew-Reginald Martinez Jackson is the best player on the best team in the sport...