Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...group has also distributed copies of the form to Brandeis, Tufts, Boston University and the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft...
...life with an average of eight to ten killings a day. Mindful of the military's recent warning that it would move in unless terrorism is controlled, police last week arrested 98 suspect leftists in a four-province sweep. To little avail: in Istanbul, a leftist group set fire to eight banks...
...more than 40 people in the embassy. As a result, almost all the campesinos, the two Guatemalan dignitaries and two embassy staffers were burned alive. The Spanish Ambassador and one campesino, Gregoria Yuga Xona, managed to escape. The next day Xona was kidnaped from his hospital bed by a group of unknown armed...
...Mobil Corp. discover when it tried to introduce six imaginative new TV commercials. The ads, which Mobil politely calls "fables for now," feature dancers and mimes masquerading as animals to make Mobil's points. Three stations have banned the ads altogether, and at least one-consumer group-Washington-based Energy Action-says it may ask for equal time from the 54 stations that are running them...
...among other things, are attached to Edward and Mrs. Simpson, a six-part British-made and Mobil-syndicated series about the romance that led to the abdication of King Edward VIII. No one objects to the series, but officials at three stations owned by the Washington Post-Newsweek broadcast group-in Jacksonville, Detroit and Hartford-told Mobil that the ads violated their ban against advocacy commercials. "We believe that controversial issues should be dealt with in our news and public affairs programs," says Amy McComb, manager of Jacksonville's WJXT. Adds Joel Chaseman, president of the Post-Newsweek stations...