Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murder in the Cathedral is a play about a man who is given the chance to realize his dreams, to make the idea and the reality one. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, had renounced political power and the friendship of the king when he had been appointed leader of the Church of England. His position gave him influential leverage in the politics of the era and weighted his every action toward the direction of history. Eliot's play opens with Becket's return to England after a seven-year exile in France and closes with his murder at the hands...
...LEFT for Cuba on December 5 feeling like rats leaving the Titanic. Fred Hampton had been murdered the night before; when we stopped in Chicago on route to Mexico City, the Chicago Tribune ("An American Paper for Americans") screamed out to us in 100-point type that the apartment of Bobby Rush, Minister of Defense of the Illinois Panthers, had been broken into by heavily armed police less than 24 hours after Chairman Fred and Mark Clark had been shot down in their beds a few blocks away. O'Hare Airport, filled with bored businessmen and saccharine-voiced stewardesses...
...federal move was belated, an obvious reaction to the killings. Until the triple murder on New Year's Eve, Labor Secretary George Shultz had taken no effective action on the Yablonski complaints. But once he decided to act, Shultz went all out. He used 230 investigators, who conducted more than 4,400 interviews at a cost to the Government...
...speaker claimed that "the script has already been written" for the execution of Bobby Seale on a Connecticut murder charge. He said that whites had to join Panthers in resisting Seale's conviction to the point of making it clear that "we're going to get a few deans and businessmen" if Seale is executed. "It's coming down to the wire," the speaker said. "White America had better shit...
Necessary? murder? In January, 1968, Auden was quoted in Newsweek as saying that American troops must remain in Vietnam. "I thought politically that one would have to stay till there was negotiation; I didn't say I supported the war," he remarked. "But things of course have gotten a lot worse. What we should do is get out, after taking precautions that people can leave the country if they want to." Auden has never written about Vietnam, "because one should write about what one knows." He has not been to Vietnam, he said, and he doesn't know enough about...