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...imperial procession. But the bungling police forgot to tell the chauffeur of the lead car about the change, so he made a wrong turn at the bridge into a narrow alley, then had to stop and back out. That maneuver forced the archduke's car to a halt, right where Princip happened to be standing. "I got hold of my handgun and aimed it at the car without really looking," Princip later testified. "I even looked away when I fired...
Lebanon, 1978, 1982, 1983. Again, it is clearly the Israelis' fault. PLO terrorists should have every right in the world to lob mortars, and to stage periodic terrorist runs into the Jewish state. What right does Israel have to invade Lebanon to attempt to halt the waves of mansacal murders? The PLO should be alloweed to blow up any military targets in wants to--especially public buses, marketplaces, passenger planes, Olympic teams, nursery schools...
...allocated to Washington were bought up in a few hours. More than twice that many might have been. Redskins season-ticket holders of decades got their checks back with regrets. Not since Watergate had lobbyists and big-time fixers been so outraged. "It would be like asking me to halt death and stop taxes," shrugged Cooke. "I have no control over...
Labor unions [Dec. 19] were created to halt the exploitation of workers by big businesses, but the unions themselves have become big businesses...
...years members of the NATO Alliance and the Warsaw Pact have been meeting in Vienna to talk about decreasing their conventional military strengths in Europe. Last week the little-known 19-nation talks on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) came to an ambiguous halt. As the 31st round of the discussions dissolved, Dutch Representative Willem de Vos van Steenwijk announced that NATO representatives had called for further talks to start in January 1984. But, he added, the Warsaw Pact delegation, headed by the Soviet Union, "has neither accepted this proposal nor proposed an alternative date nor provided any explanation...