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...film's plot is hardly new: the time is October 1917, the place is Petrograd, and the Bolsheviks are kicking the stuffing out of Alexander Kerensky's provisional government with the help of the cruiser Aurora, which is firing blanks at the Winter Palace. But what Moscow cinema fans found really new and startling at last week's premiere of Salvo of the Aurora were a couple of the bit players. For in Salvo, after nearly 40 years as an "unperson"-that ideological limbo to which the Soviets assign their villains-Leon Trotsky had returned...
...Straits, Castro officials were climbing all over the boatmen, prodding them on their way. "I told them my boat just couldn't make it," reported one exile, "but they said, 'You have the green light-go.' " Out on the open sea, the exile's cabin cruiser began taking water; a U.S. Coast Guard cutter hovering near by had to rescue everyone aboard. In all, the Coast Guard picked up more than 100 Cubans from a dozen boats swamped by the rough seas. "You just wonder how many went down unnoticed," said an exile, who lost...
...total of forces now in Viet Nam. But they are very much a part of the war, and not merely of the air war. When U.S. Marines systematically took apart a V.C. regiment on the Van Thuong peninsula south of Chu Lai last August, two destroyers and a cruiser of Task Force 77 bombarded V.C. bunkers, blasted to pieces a Red company that tried to escape over the beach. Fact is, Seventh Fleet Commander Admiral Paul P. Blackburn's floating artillery can make life miserable-and hazardous-for the V.C. up to fifteen miles from the coast...
...observation that the University Health Services does not have an ambulance is true but needs qualification. Ambulance service is provided for UHS and the Harvard community by the University Police, who maintain two (soon to be three) dual purpose cruiser-ambulances, fully equipped and always in contact with police headquarters through mobile radio units. Police officers receive emergency training at UHS and physicians accompany them in serious cases. In addition, commercial ambulances serve the UHS regularly for routine transportation and in standby status during large public events. The Cambridge Rescue Service has been of immeasurable help in rare life-threatening...
Offshore stood the helicopter carrier Jwo Jitna and the attack-transport Talladega, each carrying additional marines, plus two destroyers and the mis sile light cruiser Galvston, whose six-inch guns provided heavy artillery support. From the air, two squadrons of Phantom II jets and five squadrons of Skyhawks dropped tons of napalm and bombs on Viet Cong positions. It was a devastating punch, involving more than 5,000 U.S. ground troops; every one of them was needed, for the V.C. were tough and well dug in. "It was almost like Normandy," said one Marine commander. "They fought us from hedgerow...