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...G.l.s of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division collectively run some 60,000 miles every morning-4 miles per man (including officers) in at least 32 minutes. The division has good reason for keeping its men in top shape: it defends a 500-sq.-mi. area bestriding the Uijongbu Corridor, traditional invasion route to Seoul and a mere 15 miles from...
...reason behind the snarl in the eastern Mediterranean: a foreign army has deprived a republic--albeit just a splinter of land--of its independence and territorial integrity. When Turkish forces began landing on Cyprus last July 20, the official American response glibly called these maneuvers minor military actions. A corridor of land spanning Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, and Kyrania, another large northern city, had been taken before the Turks agreed to rechannel their pursuit of, as they phrased it, "political and military balance," into negotiations in Geneva. Only 18 per cent of the total population of Cyprus is Turkish, while...
...wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again," ...the pain of motherhood focuses with special clarity her fear of life, representing the ultimate way in which women serve...
...those more searching standards, several countries stand out as having great importance to the U.S.: Japan, preeminently; South Korea, whose independence is vital to Japanese security; the Philippines and Indonesia, which have vast resources; and Singapore and Malaysia, which together with Indonesia control the Strait of Malacca, the vital corridor for oil tankers traveling to Asia from the Middle East. Despite U.S. treaty commitments, Thailand and Taiwan are now viewed as being of less importance. No one writes them off, but then-political future is being weighed dispassionately. It would not hurt essential American interests if the government in Bangkok...
...tall silver-haired man striding down the Washington corridor could have been the sleek candidate for the U.S. presidency that he once seemed destined to become. "Hiya, John B.," said a passer-by with a warm slap on the shoulder. Despite such joviality, John B. Connally, 58, was heading toward U.S. District Judge George L. Hart's courtroom to face trial. The charges: accepting a $10,000 gratuity for influencing President Nixon to increase federal milk-price supports in 1971. Three times Governor of Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon, Connally looked tense last week at what...