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...forth daily drivel about happy factory workers, joyous farmers and the blessings of Marxism. They could do little else. Under the censorship rules, the press is forbidden to mention that Czechoslovaks were killed and wounded by the invading armies. It is also forbidden to talk about the damage that trigger-happy Soviet soldiers and their tanks inflicted on Czechoslovak buildings and autos. Above all, there must be no criticism of Warsaw Pact countries or use of the word "occupation." Censors canceled a nationwide TV and radio address by Dubcek one hour before broadcast time because he planned to say that...
...presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, was invited to lecture to a group of summer trainees at the Xerox Corp. Cleaver told his audience to "liberate" a Xerox machine or two for the Panthers. He looked forward, ultimately, he said to a "black finger on the nuclear trigger." Xerox executives endured the harangue in silence. Whispered a Negro trainee: "Nothing is too insulting for white liberals to take...
...mechanical energy. Thus, say Buehler and Wang, it could be used in fire-extinguisher activators and circuit breakers. "The beauty of Nitinol," says Buehler, "is that it's something you load ahead of time. Then if you put it in the correct temperature range, it pulls the trigger itself...
...this frustrating atmosphere, some Russian soldiers were getting trigger-happy and tough. Retaliating against lone snipers who took potshots at them during the night, they sent up flares and raked whole neighborhoods with small-arms fire. After they spotted some armed men on the roof of the Rude Pravo newspaper office. Soviet machine gunners opened fire, riddling the building's facade and shattering windows; their targets turned out to be Russian troops. The soldiers began firing without warning at anyone seen in the streets after the 10 p.m. curfew. In Prague, they killed at least three people and wounded...
...which Dodd's integrity faltered. How he sank ever more deeply into the debt of assorted acquisitive interests makes grim reading indeed. In return for favors in the Senate, say the authors, Dodd eventually took outright cash from his benefactors. After an officer of a Connecticut-based rifle-trigger company co-signed a loan made to him, Dodd put him on his congressional payroll. But then, say the authors, it is not an uncommon practice for Congressmen to put creditors on their staffs as a way of repaying them. Of course, they do not actually work or even have...