Word: crowley
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...upon the acceptance by the minority of the majority's will, and most Americans acquiesce to election results with relative equanimity. Not so William Loeb, the ultraconservative publisher of the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader. In the state's gubernatorial election this fall, Loeb supported conservative Democrat Roger Crowley, hoping that a large voter turnout in Manchester would carry Crowley past the Republican incumbent, Walter Peterson, into the Statehouse. Crowley lost by 4,200 votes. Last week the Union Leader began publishing the names of the 15,000 Manchester voters who failed to show up at the polls...
MARCH 1970: Nobuo Okuchi, Japanese consul general in Sāo Paulo, was kidnaped and exchanged for five prisoners who were flown to Mexico. Sean M. Holly, a U.S. labor attache in Guatemala City, was kidnaped and ransomed for one political prisoner. U.S. Air Attaché Lieut. Colonel Donald Crowley was kidnaped and ransomed for 20 political prisoners. In La Paz, Bolivia, Newspaper Publisher Alfredo Alexander and his wife were killed by a bomb that was delivered to their house by messenger...
...Dominican Republic, six smartly uniformed guerrillas seized a U.S. air attaché, Lieut. Colonel Donald J. Crowley, 47, from the very polo field in Santo Domingo where the first U.S. Marines were helicoptered in during the 1965 intervention. Crowley's kidnapers threatened to kill him unless the government of President Joaquin Balaguer released 24 prisoners. After two days of haggling, the government placed 20 prisoners aboard an aircraft bound for Mexico City, and the kidnapers released Crowley blindfolded from an automobile. He was still wearing the riding boots, khaki pants and white jersey he had worn 21 days earlier...
...head. Last year Brazilian guerrillas, mostly students, seized U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick, but released him unharmed when, after 77 hours, the Brazilian government allowed 15 prisoners to escape. Within the past month, Latin American terrorists have set a record by kidnaping four diplomats. In addition to Crowley and Sanchez, these included the Japanese consul general in Brazil and a U.S. embassy attaché in Guatemala; both were released after the two governments agreed to the guerrillas' demands...
...Boys in the Band occasionally tries too hard to be moving, forcing wails and laments to the surface, the film needs no such theatrics. In the hands of such masters as Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee, individuals were always shown to be deviates first and human beings second. Crowley has done the reverse. If the situation of the homosexual is ever to be understood by the public, it will be because of the breakthrough made by this humane, moving picture...