Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 04:18:26 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/24 Grave Misgivings


Bleed in full:
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/today.htm

Excerpts:

1842 -- Ambrose Bierce lives (1842-1914)

1904 -- Colorado: Troops arrest 22 workers labeled
as strike leaders & troublemakers & deport them via train
out of the Telluride district.

1924 --   Anarchitecte Michel Ragon lives...

1965 -- A Spaniard in the Works published, a book by John Lennon,
went through four impressions & sold
100,000 copies within three months.

1968 -- General Earle G. Wheeler, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, assures
a Long Island, NY audience that "the
enemy has lost whatever chance he had of taking
South Vietnam by military force."

1976 -- Poland: Government hikes staple food prices enormously.
Nationwide strikes & demonstrations
erupt. In Radom demonstrators burn Communist Party headquarters,
build barricades & fight the police ...

CAPITAL, n.
 The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the
pot, the dinner, the table & the knife & fork for the Anarchist;
the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace
before meat. Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the
 justice & expediency of which many worthy persons --
including all the assassins -- entertain grave misgivings.