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...Viet Cong hegemony. "We're still in a state of flux concerning recent losses or gains," says CORDS Deputy John P. Vann. "We're not sure what resulted from drawing in over 6,000 R.D. cadre and some of the regional and popular forces to province and district towns." But the estimates are that Communist real estate and population gains will be small in III Corps. Civilian casualties were also low: 188 dead, some 1,000 wounded or missing. But 10,000 houses were destroyed, and the area has 50,000 new refugees...
Kolden, who was to have been inducted Tuesday, had planned to refuse to enter the army; but action Friday by a Federal District Court Judge in Minnesota has halted procedures pending further court action...
Although Evers led all of his opponents and would like to become his state's first Negro in Congress since Reconstruction, the twelve-county Third District in southwest Mississippi is roughly 55% white; registered Negro voters, moreover, are outnumbered by about 125,000 to 70,000 at the polls. Since none of the candidates gained a majority in last week's election, Evers and the runner-up, Charles Griffin, 41, a longtime congressional aide to John Bell Williams, who picked up 28,806 votes, will face each other in a March 12 runoff...
...claimed equal time after Lyndon Johnson's December "Conversation with the President," which ran on all three networks. The FCC denied the request, declaring that the President was not an avowed candidate at the time. McCarthy then took his case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and lost...
...mounted, so did four-letter words in Avatar, reaching a culmination of a sort in a centerfold consisting of four familiar obscenities in yellow, 2½-in. type. Last month, Avatar staged a mass sellin at Harvard Square. Police arrested 23 salesmen on the spot. Last week a Cambridge district court convicted 17 of selling obscene material and imposed fines ranging from $100 to $300. It was the biggest court defeat handed Avatar to date. But the editors have no intention of toning the paper down now that city authorities have helped it make such a name for itself...