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Quiet prevailed in the central highlands, where another major battle for a provincial capital, Kontum, is expected to erupt at any time. Some officials yesterday predicted possible rocket attacks on Saigon itself...
...some ways it was ironic that the bloodletting should erupt now. Until last summer, many Americans were half-persuaded that the Mafia was chimerical. In New York, Mobster Joseph Colombo organized the Italian-American Civil Rights League, using many law-abiding Italian-Americans as a shield for the Syndicate. The Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, the league argued, were anti-Italian figments of the FBI'S imagination. Colombo even succeeded in embarrassing the producer of The Godfather into deleting the two names from the script. Then, at a "Unity Day" celebration in Manhattan's Columbus Circle last June...
...board adjourned without reaching a decision, the business members made it clear that they want to limit the aerospace workers to an 8% increase; labor representatives are holding out for 12%. The public members are suggesting a mediating 10%. If labor is beaten down, an aerospace strike could erupt; but with unemployment already so high in the industry, there is a big question as to what-if anything-the workers stand to gain by a walkout...
...hired bands and conscripted paraders will erupt in "spontaneous" demonstrations. The total time for nominating and seconding speeches for a candidate will be limited to an austere 15 minutes. Favorite sons will be discouraged. When the Democratic Party meets in Miami Beach next July to anoint its presidential choice, some of the more garish rituals of American political folklore will be missing. So, too, the party's reformers hope, will be the spectacle of bosses brokering power in cigar-clouded hotel suites amid a certain heady cynicism about how the game is played. No one is certain what will...
...months, border battles had broken out almost daily between troops of the two nations. The conflict that finally erupted last week along the 1,300-mile frontier was plainly big enough to raise the specter of a major conflagration on the subcontinent. The presence of Indian troops on Pakistan's soil escalated the dispute between the two nations to the point where full-scale war could erupt at any moment?a war that could also cause an uncomfortable confrontation of the major powers...