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Harvard Capt. Mike Koerner finished second in 24:19 and was followed by another Tufts runner, Ham Amer, who took third...
...given its readers a ste reotyped look at "knapsack nomads" [July 19]. Some of us choose one country in which to spend our vacation with the hope of learning some of the language and meeting some of the local people. We did not come to Europe to meet Amer icans or to commit cultural genocide, as so many American military personnel and tourists do. JOHN B. WILLIAMS III Copenhagen...
Died. Lieut. General Ali Ali Amer, 64, chief of the Egyptian armed forces during the disastrous 1956 Sinai defeat at the hands of Israel; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Egypt. Despite that debacle, during which Israeli troops routed his forces on the desert peninsula in less than a week, Amer remained in favor with Egypt's President Nasser, was named chief of staff in 1959, and head of the Arab unified military command in 1964, a position he retained until his retirement in 1968, after...
...long ago as May 14, 1969, President Nixon refused to fix an advance date for the total withdrawal of Amer-can forces, saying it would "completely destroy" the prospects of a settlement at the Paris talks...
...battle flared up again, then finally faded. At the Jordan Intercontinental, sleepy hostages were roused from bed and assembled to meet P.F.L.P. Leader Habash. "We believe that we had the right to use you and your lives to put pressure on the Jor danian government and on the Amer icans," he told them. "I must be frank and tell you that we were near to executing our plan. We were determined to blow up the hotels. You must try to understand why we did it. For 23 years, we have been living in tents and huts, and this has conditioned...