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...other officers managed to drag the gravely wounded Matthews out, then opened fire on the house. The house went up in flames after a smoke bomb was thrown down an air vent. Thousands of rounds of ammunition, apparently stored inside, exploded. Said State Trooper Charles Harper: "We just pulled back and waited three and a half hours until it cooled down. It was raining hard, and lightning was striking all around. We didn't know which would get us first, the lightning or the bullets...
...U.C.L.A. Sociologist Harry Kitona: "They regard the Koreans as the Mortimer Snerds of America. They cannot learn the language, their food smells and they cannot express themselves." In a city with half a dozen major "Oriental" communities, national distinctions seem magnified, perhaps because these uneasy ethnic cousins have been thrown together as never before...
June 2, 3:18 a.m.--A large brick was thrown through the kitchen window of the Harvard Lampoon during a Lampoon weekly party. The incident occurred shortly after the humor organization had some problem with a bouncer they had hired for the night...
Labor's Foot derided the Prime Minister for her "irresolute rush" to elections and charged that "care and compassion had been thrown out the window" during her term. Labor had favored later elections to give the party more time to close the rift between its radical left and moderate wings. But there was also grumbling among some Tory M.P.s, who noted that the party had not even selected its candidates in 20 constituencies. In fact, the 31-day campaign will interfere with several important international meetings. Thatcher promptly canceled talks with President Reagan in Washington...
...Night (1958), an austere, shattering account of a boy's first days behind barbed wire, babies were thrown into ovens and God was banished from everywhere but memory: "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises to the Jewish people." If Wiesel's literary career had ended with Night, he would still have earned an international reputation as a founder of Holocaust literature. Once the novel was published, others dared to speak out: Nelly Sachs' laments were carried...