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Communist forces yesterday captured Quang Tri, the first provincial capital to fall during their 33-day-old offensive. It was the northernmost town still held by South Vietnamese troops...
...dusty town near the Mexican border, a battered old van with VOLUNTEER BORDER RELIEF lettered in green on the side pulls up behind a supermarket. The figure who hauls himself from the cab looks like the local citizen most in need of relief. Ferree, 77, a stooped 6 ft. 6 in., has bowed legs, deteriorating teeth and a face that looks like an old rock weathered by dust storms. Indeed, he is the scavenger he appears; for 25 years he has scuttled through the alleys of Harlingen, scrounging loaves of day-old bread, wilting fruit and vegetables, soup bones, used...
...presumably fighting poverty actually profit from it. Besides, the poor "support medical innovation" as patients in teaching and research hospitals, and they constitute "a labor pool that is willing-or, rather, unable to be unwilling-to perform dirty work at low cost." Poor people "prolong the economic usefulness" of day-old bread, secondhand clothes and cars and deteriorated buildings; they also provide income for incompetent doctors, lawyers and teachers who might otherwise be an economic drain on society...
...day-old trial of two former Harvard students charged with assault and battery on Dean Watson during the University Hall occupation will continue in Middlesex County Superior court at 10 a.m. this morning...
...student-administration negotiating team also met yesterday to work out a new set of proposals which, if accepted both by the administration and the students, could result in an end to the 11-day-old strike...