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...highest-priority aims of the radicals, to win over the "working class" to their beliefs, may well take that long - if it is ever achieved. Months ago, before the S.D.S. split into two fac tions over ideological disagreements at its June convention in Chicago, the S.D.S. determined that it would renew and intensify its efforts to infiltrate labor and create a revolutionary worker-student alliance. Similar "work-in" programs had been attempted before on a smaller scale, but this time the campaign was planned in detail. A lengthy Work-in Organizers Manual was circulated among S.D.S. chapters. At the convention...
...Numbers. Back home, the Czechoslovak people continued to show the same sort of solidarity with Dubcek as Svoboda had shown. Many of them wore red, white and blue corsages and carried IVAN GO HOME! placards. Thev burned propaganda leaflets dropped from Soviet helicopters. Hundreds of thousands of citizens in fac tories, sports clubs and professional associations signed petitions calling upon Svoboda to declare Czechoslovakia neu tral and withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. Radio Prague began broadcasting the license-plate numbers of secret police cars so that people could slash their tires...
...pilots in tiny FAC planes hovered continually over the battlefield to locate the more easily indentifiable targets. To coordinate all the activities, an ABCCC (Airborne Command and Control Center) was kept in the sky high over Khe Sanh at all times. It was a C-130 Herky Bird packed with the latest electronic gear, which enabled the Air Force colonel on board to talk with Marines on the ground, pilots in the surrounding sky and his own superiors in Saigon...
...Chinese autos and the new fac tories that produce them will quickly pollute the Asian skies, Neiburger fears, dirtying the air currents even before they reach the U.S. Eventually, if air pollution increases beyond the capacity of the atmosphere to cleanse itself, smog will encircle the earth, he says, "and all of civilization will pass away. Not from a sudden cataclysm, but from gradual suffocation by its own effluents...
...tears were quite understandable. Under Stalin, Georgia was more pampered than any other Soviet republic. It received disproportionately large allocations for farms, dams and fac tories, was permitted to preserve a good deal of private initiative at a time when the rest of Russia was being brutally forced into collectivization. After Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, all of that changed. Georgians were dropped from power in Mos cow, and Khrushchev even tore up a few of Georgia's vineyards, replanting them with his favorite crop, corn...