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...presumably clear the way for entrance to West Point and Annapolis. But women already serve in the military, and in practice would not be required to perform duties for which they were unequipped. Besides, as women in the movement are fond of pointing out, the Israelis -and Viet Cong-routinely use women as soldiers...
...hundreds tried to attend a banned rock festival in Turner Falls Park. Worried about "drugs, nudity, free love and lawlessness," Governor Dewey Bartlett blocked the kids with 300 National Guardsmen. In Anaheim, Calif., about 300 garishly garbed Yippies "liberated" Disneyland. Before the cops arrived, the raiders hoisted a Viet Cong flag atop a fort on Tom Sawyer's Island and yowled slogans like "Free Mickey Mouse...
...needed more money for arms because of the serious threat on its borders. Thanom indicated that the threat came partly from Thailand's native Communist insurgents, eight of whom were arrested last week. But the gravest danger came, he said, from the spillover of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops to areas of Cambodia near Thailand's frontier. Thus far, however, the Thais have not responded to Cambodia's urgent pleas for troops, not only because of Bangkok's internal economic problems but also because of its uncertainty over how much U.S. aid might be forthcoming...
...Including Hanoi's figurehead President Ton Due Thang, Premier Pham Van Dong and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the Viet Cong delegation to the Paris peace talks. Alumni from Saigon include Phan Khac Suu, chief of state in 1965, and Truong Dinh Dzu, unsuccessful peace candidate in the 1967 presidential elections...
...ammunition is in such short supply that raw recruits sometimes get a grand total of five practice shots before they are sent on active duty. Moreover, says one diplomatic observer, "The Cambodians must learn that you don't kill a fly with a cannon. When a hundred Viet Cong appear, you don't send a regiment to chase them...