Tuesday June 10
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Two notable deaths today. Spectacular Bid, the race horse whose drive to win the Triple Crown in 1979 was derailed by a safety pin on the day of the Belmont Stakes, and Donald Regan, Pres. Reagan's chief-of-staff, whose drive to help the "Contras" led to America's diverting funds generated from the illegal sale of weapons to Iran to support -- despite a congressional ban -- counter-revolutionaries in Nicaragua. One of them should have been shot. And it's not the one who got whipped when he won.
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