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...protesters have a more peaceful-and potent-tactic. Since Aug. 5, when a group of Socialist demonstrators sat down in front of a convoy of tank transporters hauling five U.S. M48 tanks, the Army has been unable to move any armor into or out of its huge depot at Sagamihara, where military equipment is repaired for use in Viet Nam. Though some 200 tanks and armored personnel carriers are now bottled up in the depot awaiting shipment, Japan's tough riot police have not been called out against the protesters, who are after all only upholding the law: under...
...states is the demand of certain minorities, such as Spain's Basques or the Bretons of France, for regional autonomy. The most recent country to be struck by a wave of minority discontent is, of all places, peaceful little Switzerland. Investigating a suspicious fire at an army ammunition depot near Delémont on the French border recently, authorities found the letters FLJ-"Front de Libération Jurassien daubed on in fresh paint. The front is the more militant of two organizations representing dissident Swiss in the Jura region of Bern canton...
...youth group, known as Les Beliers (The Rams), has mounted such protests as tarring Bern streetcar tracks to halt traffic and barricading the entrance to the cantonal legislature. The smaller, more aggressive FLJ has set fire to buildings and dynamited railroads in addition to attacking the ammunition depot at Delémont...
...another big raid, Air Force F4 Phantoms using both laser-guided and general purpose bombs attacked a fuel depot 35 miles northeast of Hanoi. Pilots reported many direct hits, numerous secondary explosion and fires, and a pipeline...
...Russia; the police pick up more and more Jews; finally they drive their black limousines over the bicycle paths of the garden of the Finzi-Continis. When they emerge again it is to carry the family to join the other Jewish townspeople in the schoolhouse of Ferrara, the first depot on their train ride to those "hotels in the woods, where instead of giving you a key to your room, they burn a number into your...