Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Kennedy threat is real among workers here at headquarters. A couple of weeks ago, when Kennedy threatened to file 30 minority reports, rumors spread that the convention would last five days instead of the regularly-scheduled four. Dixon ordered credentials to be printed for the extra day. Even after a Carter-Kennedy peace accord, the convention will last long hours. The right speakers may not appear during prime time...
...might think actors would be superfluous. A narrator, maybe Lloyd Bridges, could explain the action for a few minutes at the start, break for a Mutual of Omaha commercial ("the armadillo has natural protection, but people have to rely on..") and then get straight to the underwater photography. Instead, we get stars...
Noted Philippine dissident Benigno A. Aquino, who was one of the first jailed when President Fernand E. Marcos imposed martial law in 1972, said yesterday he would accept a fellowship at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) instead of returning as promised to incarceration in Manila...
...someone shouted as state troopers led Stork and Hagen away from the dining hall theater. The name fit conveniently in headlines, but it didn't really match Stork and Hagen. Were they revolutionaires, they probably would have shown "The Bolivian Repression" to a crowd of seven. Their roles called instead for sincerity. They had to convince the audience they were the good guys, but not so all-American as to lose their seedy believability. They are plot devices really, showing the film and then making a few cameo appearances in court. But if anyone is interested, their motivation, at least...
...court, and quite a bit of sleep. But the more than 150 protesters who marched through Quincy House courtyard that Friday night lost much more--the impact of one of the biggest protests ever organized by campus feminists was twisted and muted by the arrests. Within an hour, instead of basking in the glow of a job well done, they were feverishly preparing a one-page statement explaining that they did not condone censorship and arrests. The people in the saga who acted with the purest motives ended up in worst shape; defending themselves against the charge that they...