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...troops were under strict orders not to fire unless fired upon. For several hours, paratroopers, forbidden to interfere, watched rebels assemble a .50-cal. machine gun atop a building. When the machine gun cut loose, the troopers disassembled it with one shot from a 106-mm. recoilless rifle. But that was unusual. A sniper pinned a paratrooper in a doorway one night, and before corps headquarters finally granted permission for covering fire, the G.I. counted 183 shots zinging off the walls around him. "We're fighting politics, and maybe that's O.K.," said the sergeant. "But, man, they...
...observer guessed that the crisis keeping Bandy at the White House was the same as the one that kept Vice-President Humph from attending Churchill's funeral and other government officials from openly discussing various policies. Most of the rumors seemed to include the possibility that the President had forbidden Bandy's appearance...
...serious trouble. If an American goes to jail, it is usually only long enough for the cops to find a translator to call U.S. officials. To avoid accidents, however, avoid night driving. Roads are full of unlighted oxcarts and parked trucks with snoozing drivers. If he bumbles into forbidden areas at night, a tourist may find his car and himself ventilated by trigger-happy guards. Equally dangerous: trading black-market dollars or defacing Tito's ubiquitous pictures...
Ulich recommended that schools, although forbidden to teach any "denominational tenets,"redouble their efforts to relate to their students the "values and virtues implicit in relgion" in a historical framework. Teachers should not be paid merely to relate a "number of skills and knowledges and then leave the inner life of their charges to the chance of the environment...
...send trade missions to Madrid. Spanish soccer teams often entertain Russian opponents these days, even though it means flying the hammer and sickle over Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The Catholic newspaper Ya, which, like the rest of the Spanish press, had for more than two decades been forbidden to publish a Russian dateline, last month opened its own Moscow bureau...