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...good reason to take her Revolutionary Brigades seriously; they have been violently assaulting Portugal's governments for the past four years. In November 1971, shortly after they defected from the Communist Party because they regarded it as too bourgeois, they blew up the NATO base at Fonte da Telha. In 1972 they stole hundreds of pounds of explosives from the army and blew up 15 army trucks; that same year they also severed the ocean cables linking Portugal to Africa and America. They bombed two army installations in Lisbon and one base in Oporto...
...Casey started playing summer ball in Kansas City-K.C. was the source of his nickname-to support himself while attending dental college. But he was a southpaw, Casey explained later, and the equipment of the period was geared for righthanded drillers. Like such other leftist talents as Leonardo da Vinci and Sandy Koufax, Stengel adjusted. He signed on at $75 a month with the Kankakee, Ill., club and immediately became the clown prince of the bush leagues. Running to his position, the outfielder liked to practice sliding into home plate en route. "There was a lunatic asylum across from...
...welfare applicant, in the form of notarized letters. A guy who looks like Broderick Crawford, only beaten, pulls forms out of several different pockets, "I can show you so much stuff...dis, dat...I can show you names, red numbers...somethin's awful funny here...doesn't meet da...
...Leona Parsons, a missionary based at Bongo in central Angola, "was the complete breakdown of all normal civilized life. As long as I live, I shall never forget the sight of the bodies in the streets and the pigs eating them." Added Farmer Geres Miljo, a refugee from Sa da Bandeira: "If you get in the way of the soldiers...
...called editorially for "a broad-based government" in which the major political parties would participate. Visiting Costa Gomes early in the week to discuss formation of a new Cabinet, Communist Leader Cunhal agreed that it should represent more of the 80% of the population that Air Force Chief Morais da Silva had talked about...