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...wave of terrorism, in which seven died, put Northern Ireland on the verge of a grim and unwanted millenary last week. The fatalities raised the total number of people killed in the smoldering civil conflict since 1969 to 998. In addition, 28 were wounded in bombings by extremists of the Provisional Irish Republican Army that devastated Belfast and three other towns. The violence further threatened already fading hopes that a Catholic-Protestant coalition Cabinet inaugurated on Jan. 1 would finally bring to a halt the unrelenting agony of the province. In the three months since the coalition took over, there...
...summer grasses are especially lush where it is always summertime: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tinian, Luzon, Iwo Jima-World War II battle sites where hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers died in a losing cause. But rather than rely on troubadours to describe the battlegrounds, many Japanese are making the grim journey to these islands in the sun. Not incidentally they have spawned a lucrative sideline for Japan's booming tourist industry-senseki jumpai, or battlefield pilgrimages...
With Arube dead, along with 70 other soldiers and civilians, the coup collapsed. By midafternoon, Big Daddy was touring the town in an open Jeep, waving happily to passersby. Then started the grim business of reprisals. At least 500 people are known to have been executed so far, mostly Lugbaras. A few were killed by firing squads; others were shot in the knees, doused with gasoline, and set afire, or trussed up and tossed alive into Lake Victoria or the Nile to drown or be devoured by crocodiles...
Struggling to offset the damaging impact of the Watergate grand jury indictments, which charged that a criminal cover-up conspiracy had permeated the White House, President Nixon last week took the rare step of holding his second press conference within eight days. Though he was grim and nervous, he came across forcefully in defending his own role in that ill-fated scheme. But before the week was over, there were more indictments of his men, and a determined House Judiciary Committee pushed tenaciously ahead in its impeachment inquiry...
...such luck; a moneychanger is more welcome in the temple than a live artist in the bourse. The blasphemy gave Mrs. Scull a fit of the vapors, and she was whisked away to a restorative party after Mr. Scull, looking suitably grim, told the rude dauber that he ought to be grateful, since the auction price would push up the price of his new work. Rauschenberg, accompanied by an artists' accountant and financial counselor named Rubin Gorewitz, went off to Washington to start lobbying. "From now on," he told the Wall Street Journal, "I want a royalty...