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...urban centers are "free-fire zones," where any moving person can be fail-game. In the late 1960s, brigade-size units regularly crunched through the countryside on search-and-destroy missions; during the same period, artillery laced patterns of "H & I" (harassment and interdiction) fire from dusk until dawn, throwing tons of shells at village crossroads that might-or might not -be used as routes for infiltration. Bombs still fall from unseen planes without warning; some inevitably land in the wrong place, others in the right place but on the wrong people. Bureaucratic demands for a show of allied progress...
Over 50,000 people stretched languidly across a polo field adjacent to Algonquin Peace City as performers ranging from the Beach Boys to Phil Ochs played for 17 hours through the night, but when dawn broke yesterday, concert-goers rolled over to find a line of helmeted police over half-a-mile long stationed in the trees along Independence Ave. A police sound truck circled the park at 6:30 a.m., awakening campers and instructing them to leave the park or face arrest...
...music had started and dozens of groups, including Pete Seeger and Livingston Taylor, entertained the crowd until dawn. About 50,000 stayed in the park overnight, and many of them are expected to remain in Washington for next week's actions...
...Before dawn the next day, the last 13 soldiers in Kushtia stole out of the radio building and covered 14 miles on foot before two Bengali militiamen took them prisoner and brought them back to the Kushtia district jail. The 13 were the only known survivors of Delta Company's 147 men. Among the West Pakistani dead was Nassim Waquer, a 29-year-old Punjabi who last January had been appointed assistant deputy commissioner at Kushtia. When an angry mob found his body, they dragged it through the streets of the town for half a mile...
...Mark him well," Diaghilev said of the 27-year-old Igor Stravinsky. "He is a man on the eve of celebrity." When celebrity came, Stravinsky had a long day of it: a stormy dawn of controversy, a high blaze of creative influence, a waning afternoon of waspish polemics and high-priced memorabilia. Last week the night finally fell, as Stravinsky died in Manhattan at 88.* It was the end of six decades of dominance, in which he had incalculably shaped the musical thought of generations to come. It was the end, too, of what Conductor Colin Davis called "a chain...