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While police were pushing the crowd against the hotel front, another body of police in a side street, alerted by a radio call of "policeman in trouble," charged into the flank of the already jam-packed crowd, ultimately forcing a score of people through a plate-glass window...
...harpoon, smack in the flank...
Readiness. Meanwhile, political and military developments in Europe have given the colonels considerable leverage over the U.S. The growing Soviet naval presence in the Mediterranean convinced Pentagon planners of the need for a strengthening of NATO's eastward flank. Even more important, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the continuing threat to Yugoslavia were a clear indication that Greece's armed forces should be brought up to a high state of readiness. Consequently, the U.S. State Department wrestled down its objection to the junta and agreed to renewed shipments of heavy arms. The first consignment will consist...
...five fields, from which it will fly MIG-21 interceptors and SU-7 and YAK-28 Firebar fighter-bombers. All in all, the Soviets will leave behind a force sufficient to keep the Czechoslovaks in line and NATO worried about the threat to West Germany's exposed southern flank...
Mournful Wails. What they offer is a big, glossy, geared-up show. Flashing, multicolored panels of lights flank a glistening fountain in the background, while two go-go girls shimmy in the foreground. The band, massed in a double row facing the audience, is a discotheque in itself. While punching out blues riffs over a pile-driving beat, the brass and saxophone players whirl their instruments around and swivel through the shing-a-ling, the funky Broadway, and other loose-jointed steps-some of their own devising. Leaders in each section use hand signals to cue the choreography...