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...Protestant sections of Belfast burst out last week in sudden and open fury. During two nights of violent rioting, which included a three-hour gun battle with British troops in the heart of the city, six people were killed and more than 100 soldiers and civilians injured. The rampages marked the first major Protestant attacks on British troops since the soldiers were sent to Northern Ireland more than three years ago to curb violence between Ulster's Catholics and Protestants. The riots also coincided with a tough new mood in Westminster. A British government source last week told TIME...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities made its television debut this week but the scheduled three-hour show turned into a telethon that will continue today...
...nadir of Orientation Week was the Bureau of Study Counsel's infamous three-hour reading test. The test itself was not so enlightening, but we were amazed to watch the kid between us flaunt his Evelyn Wood skills...
...three-hour interview in Cairo with al Hawadess Editor-Publisher Salim Louzi, Sadat described with unusual frankness the reasoning behind his sudden decision. He had decided that another war with Israel was inevitable and that "the Russian military presence would render a big strategic service to Israel when the battle begins. Israel would then say that it was fighting the Russians, not the Arabs, and would thus win over the Americans and even European public opinion. This meant that the Russians had become a burden...
Year after year the delegations of high officials, Congressmen and their dignitaries would arrive in Salgon and, still dizzy from the trip, would receive massive, two or three-hour briefings from colonels with seven overlay charts, then dine with the ambassador or the commanding general, those tall noble Anglo-Saxons who emanated all the confidence of surgeons to their patients. The next day they would be issued green fatigues and flown around by daredevil helicopter pilots to spend (but for the air trip) an unalterably boring day visiting hamlets with pig farms, maternity clinics, 'miracle rice' plots, and children washed...