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...Crucial Command. The most note worthy transfer was of Li Te-sheng, 61, the army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area...
Archibald Cox, the determined Special Prosecutor, refused to accept a unilateral Nixon "compromise" designed to circumvent Sirica's orders regarding the presidential tapes, and publicly protested Nixon's command that he desist from seeking further presidential evidence. Fired by Nixon, Cox bowed out with a Brahmin civility that inspired a fire storm of protest at his dismissal. Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson, too, stood as a staunch symbol of integrity in the celebrated "Saturday Night Massacre" by defying the White House decree that he fire Cox. Richardson resigned instead, further arousing national indignation...
...opposition since 1948. Born 60 years ago in Brest Litovsk, Begin (pronounced Bay-ghin) came to Palestine with the Polish Army in 1942 and soon set up an anti-British terrorist organization, the Irgun Zvai Leumi. Among the Irgun's acts of savagery under his command were the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, the hanging of two British sergeants, and the massacre of at least 254 Arab civilians in the village of Dir Yassin in 1948. Today Begin is better known for his expansionist belief that his country should absorb all those parts...
...sighting marks were daubed on a wall across the street so the terrorists would know when to trigger the explosives. There were two assassins. One peered through the window and gave directions through a walkie-talkie; at his command, the other pressed the plunger. The identity of these men has not been announced by the police-and is presumably still unknown...
Born in England, raised in Seattle, Lieberson settled in New York to write music, hobnob with composers like Ives and Henry Cowell and write irreverent music criticism for the now defunct magazine Modern Music. After signing on with Columbia Masterworks in 1939 as second in command, he made one of his first projects the first recording of Pierrot Lunaire with the composer Arnold Schoenberg conducting. It was something that only an ex-composer would have fought for. The album bombed financially on 78 r.p.m., but finally made back the investment when transferred to LP a decade later...