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...Down with Forged Elections!", stoned the windows of the British Embassy and swarmed into the offices of the U.S. Information Service, setting it afire. Some 60 civilians and policemen were wounded and eleven or more killed. Regent Abdul Illah hastily appointed his army chief of staff, General Nur El Din Mahmoud, as Premier. General Mahmoud declared martial law in Baghdad Province, and a measure of order was restored by tear gas and armored-car patrols...
...brush of the slope, Marines tumbled the bulky, bleeding form of the wounded sergeant on to a poncho and labored off in the darkness, a man hauling at each corner of the improvised litter. Bright, raucous mortar bursts followed along behind them. The bursts were short and above the din they heard a cheering sound-two alarmed Chinese patrols back on the ridge were busily trying to kill each other. The Marines reached their own lines safely by dawn. But it was, they agreed to a man, a miserable type of war for U.S. Marines...
...Amid the din of election, some 1,600 American communities spread across the 48 states did not forget another autumn campaign: the annual Red Feather drive for charity. Two million volunteers, under the national leadership of Community
...women and tin-helmeted men yelled vivas. A leather-jacketed Indian stepped to the President's side and sounded the ancient Inca battle call on a curved bull horn. That night bonfires burned all over the Bolivian Andes, and the cobbled streets of La Paz echoed with the din of jubilant partisans firing off the rifles and pistols they had seized from government arsenals and routed army units last April during the uprising of Paz Estenssoro's totalitarian Movement of National Revolution...
...frothy water crimson with blood. In its death throes, a whale rammed the boat containing three generations of Higdons. It smashed three planks below the water line, but the skiff stayed in the drive. Ashore, 12-year-old Charlie Williams thrust a lance into a beached whale. The din was terrible: clanking tin cans, shouts from fishermen, screams from women on the beach and a frantic pounding of whale tails on water. Blubber for the Plant. Examining the carcasses, the fishermen found that they had set a season's record: 3,200 with three weeks still to go. Best...