Word: bers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aktie got its start early last summer, and has since attracted the support of Dutch religious, labor and political groups of the center and non-Communist left. Diekerhof himself is a mem ber of the Dutch Labor Party executive, and active in the New Left. He and other Aktie leaders have organized street theaters, panels and teach-ins in hired halls all over The Netherlands during the past few weeks. Last week in Driebergen, near Utrecht, one listener wondered why Aktie was not making similar efforts with the Soviet Union. Diekerhof answered: "We do not know how to influence...
...attack anyone but their handlers guard key U.S. installations. Tracker dogs, Labrador retrievers trained in Malaysia, are used to sniff out enemy withdrawal routes. After one recent ambush in III Corps, a tracker led a U.S. unit on a 51-hr. chase that ended at an abandoned rub ber plantation. Sure enough, the Communists were hiding there, and the Americans killed 70 of them...
Root Problems. Viet Nam overshadowed hearings on the rest of the platform. Testimony was heard from some 300 witnesses, including such disparate groups as the American Latvian Association and the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom. Though the 110-mem ber Platform Committee was preparing to draft a stern "law-and-order" plank in hopes of neutralizing a similarly tough G.O.P. statement, Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned against allowing the phrase to become a slogan for repression...
...front, the five-man military court took only an hour and a half to complete the trial. Its verdict: Guilty of treason, plotting and falsely espousing the cause of peace in accordance with Communist policy. With that, South Viet Nam last week sentenced to death the entire ten-mem ber leadership of the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces, a group of South Vietnamese intellectuals and professionals formed three months ago with the announced intention of bringing peace to Viet Nam through a coalition government. They were tried in absentia; all of them had slipped away during or after...
...Hours of Le Mans came way back in 1952, and no German car has won a Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche 907 prototypes put on a performance that suggested this year may be Deutschland über Alles once again. They finished one-two-three in the 24 Hours of Daytona, the longest sports-car endurance race in the U.S. and a major tune-up for Le Mans...