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Gardner promised to head the effort himself. Just how this would affect his job with the Urban Coalition was unclear, but Gardner admitted that his association with the new "third force" cast doubts on the wisdom of retaining his present post. Contributions to lobbying groups are not taxdeductible, and keeping his job could jeopardize the coalition's tax-exempt status...
Just who started the battle between the swaggering guerrillas and Jordanian soldiers loyal to Hussein is unclear. The guerrillas were members of the ultra-militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is led by a radical Arab Christian physician named George Habash, an exponent of terror tactics against civilians, including children. In the small town of Zarka, twelve miles north of Amman, quarrels broke out between guerrillas and soldiers of the Saiqa (Thunderbolt) Regiment, a unit especially faithful to Hussein. Both sides were armed, and the confrontation quickly expanded into episodes of violence. By the time it ended...
...with a cracked muffler. As background the tapes carried the sound of ocean waves, which Hovhaness skillfully blended with cymbals and gongs. The whales were accompanied by whooping brass glissandi, glockenspiels, tam-tam and bass drum. When it was all over, the audience applauded enthusiastically, though it remained unclear whether their applause had been for Composer Hovhaness or the whales themselves. Backstage, the whale voices had already been nicknamed "Beverly," "Birgit" and "Cesare...
...unclear how much of a policy change Burns' talk really represented. He noted at the dinner that the growth of money supply speeded up from 4% in the first quarter to a 10% annual rate in April. The May increase, he said, was 8%. Those comments spread an impression that the Federal Reserve would continue to expand money at much more than the 3% to 4% rate that Burns had previously indicated was his target. Perhaps-but the April and May increases were artificially large because of many factors, including the effects of the postal strike. Burns worries that...
...four demands directly pointed to a confrontation with the university, our casual decision as to who was and and who wasn't on strike was an elitists mistake. I wanted to dissolve the committee and let individuals put forward their politics in an unofficial capacity. For reasons still unclear to me, the vote for dissolution failed. I felt strongly enough about the growth of our elitism that I resigned from the committee...