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...claim to a dominant role in any future government, the Marxists called a 24-hour general strike that paralyzed industry and brought bloodshed to the streets. Toward week's end India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi invoked emergency provisions for direct control from New Delhi of the torn state...
This time Horovitz came down hard on these themes. The boys discover the Indian's identification card and torture him with the possibility of calling his home. Joey is torn between sticking with his buddy Murph or saving the Indian from this cruelty. However, the conflict of this kind must be subtle, but is no more subtle than anything else in the play. The play occasionally smacked of the "East Side Gang," the only difference being its slight political edge...
...operating in South Viet Nam. Three days later, they spread to the capital as thousands of placard-carrying, student-age protesters attacked the North Vietnamese embassy, tossing furniture through doors and windows, and setting fire to several official cars. At the Viet Cong embassy, windows were smashed, doors were torn from their hinges, and the lawn was strewn with debris. The demonstrations continued for three more days, spreading to Vietnamese-owned businesses...
Dean Sheppard, who came on toward the end of the season at 150, should be fully recovered from torn rib cartilages sustained in the Yale meet, and Dave Seanion (190) will be eligible again after being placed on academic probation in February...
...molehill," in this case, was a towering wall of snow that had torn loose from Switzerland's 11,532-ft. Gelmihorn just before dawn one day last week and roared into a group of buildings near the village of Reckingen. Some 50 sleeping occupants were buried in a 40-ft. mound of snow. The canton's rescue squad rushed to the scene with snow-sounding poles and dogs, but its efforts were hampered by a howling blizzard. The eventual toll: 30 dead, 18 injured, most of them officers of a Swiss army unit that had been practice-shooting...