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With Bird a one-man wrecking crew, the Celtics raced to a 37-34 lead after one period. They slowed down in the second quarter, but were in command, 59-48, at the half...
...deputy Robert McFarlane was considered by most of Reagan's advisers, and even by Reagan, as the obvious choice. But as in other foreign policy personnel disputes during the past three years, Reagan allowed the uncertainty to linger and leak. What should have been a clean change of command became another running story-similar to the one that accompanied the departure of Secretary of State Alexander Haig-of struggles between Administration pragmatists and ideologues. The recriminations from the dispute are still reverberating. "Those who fought McFarlane," says one consummate White House infighter, "did not help themselves...
...southern Germany another 200,000 protesters were arriving by bus, train, car, bicycle and foot. There too a human chain was formed. This one connected Stuttgart's U.S. Military Command Headquarters with Wiley Barracks in Neu-Ulm some 65 miles away, where peace movement leaders believe that the first of the Pershing IIs will be deployed. In Hamburg, an estimated 100,000 West Germans stood in the city center to observe the requisite five minutes of silence before dispersing for an afternoon of speeches. Here too the demonstration was smaller than expected. A plan for blockading the River Elbe...
...fired on the crowd, slaying more than a dozen people. In the resulting pandemonium, Bishop was led away at gunpoint. That night Radio Free Grenada announced the chilling news that he was dead. He had been executed along with five other officials by the "revolutionary armed forces" under the command of General Hudson Austin...
French spokesman Lt. Col. Phillipe DeLongeaux said 38 French troops were killed, 15 wounded, and 20 were missing in the bombing at a French command seconds after the attack on the Americans...