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Summer & Torches. At the opposite pole, antiwar groups finally feel that they have tapped a rich lode of pacifism in the U.S. public. Agencies to aid draft evaders dot the nation like acne. The "Viet Nam Summer" movement, largely sponsored by a group of Harvard professors, has rung doorbells in 46 states urging political action to end the war. From Ann Arbor to Boston and in 13 other communities, it has tried to get antiwar resolutions onto the ballots for this fall's municipal elections...
Hong Kong braced for the worst-more riots, further cuts in supplies of food and water. But the Maoists struck first at Hopson's chancellery in Peking. On the dot of the ultimatum's expiration, even though all but 18 of the 19 prisoners had been routinely released, hundreds of Red Guards pushed past acquiescent Red Army and police guards. They crowded into the British diplomatic compound, shouting Mao-think slogans in English and French and throwing Molotov cocktails. Inside were 23 British diplomats, women and children. The mob set the chancellery afire, forcing the British to come...
Anguilla is hardly the proper setting for revolution. A 34-sq.-mi. coral dot in the Leeward Islands east of Puerto Rico, the island has rested languidly for 300 years under British rule. Without electricity or telephones, the 5,000 Anguillans earn a meager living from fishing, working a salt pond and occasional smuggling. In February, Britain tried to loosen its ties with this poor dependency by linking Anguilla with two larger and more prosperous islands to form the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla federation, retaining control only of foreign affairs and defense...
...blusters and pounds his fist if someone maligns Lyndon Johnson or another Democrat. He knows California as few other people do: probably no one else could be so effusive about the redwoods or the Los Angeles freeway system; probably no one else can name the tiny settlements that dot Highway 395 as it climbs from Barstow to Bishop...
...teau. Normandy. The 6th of June, 1944. Fire bombs explode overhead. Parachutes dot the warm night sky. Below, a captain of the Resistance is locked in combat with a German major. The cause of their quarrel: a woman, naturally. In France, D-day or no Dday, S for sex comes first...