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...only city in South Viet Nam where the V.C. flag still flew. Ten days of bitter street fighting cleared -at least temporarily-the modern residential section south of the Perfume River, but the battle raged with full fury in the rubble-strewn Citadel, the early 19th century imperial fortress that holds much of Viet Nam's architectural and cultural treasure. As thousands of refugees huddled under a grey pall from countless fires, 1,000 U.S. Marines crossed the river to help the 2,500 South Vietnamese infantrymen and Marines fighting to recapture the former royal enclosure, once known...
...Councils, aims to mobilize local priests' groups in efforts to improve the quality of the clergy and speed the pace of reform in the church -and society. To show their ecumenical spirit, the priests closed their two-day meeting by singing Martin Luther's A Mighty Fortress...
Call for Peace Talks. At week's end, none of the group was laughing. After a quick drumhead trial in Havana's La Cabaña fortress, Escalante and 36 of his fellow conspirators were found guilty of treason and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years (Escalante got the maximum). Though Fidel himself kept silent, he did not seem ready to split with Russia and lose his $1,000,000-a-day dole. Cuban Minister Without Portfolio Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking for Castro, called for ideological peace talks with Moscow; after all, he noted...
...alienation that made the young generation wince with the pleasure of recognition. In seclusion in Woodstock, N.Y., since a motorcycle spill in the summer of 1966, he became a legend. Folkniks trembled at rumors. Was he dead, dying, mindless, voiceless? To one of the few reporters who breached his fortress, Dylan laughingly replied: "They're all true." Meanwhile, Dylan in absentia loomed larger than Dylan in the flesh; last year four of his LP albums broke the million-dollar sales mark, something none had done previously...
Before Thomson, said the piece, "the Times was a newspaper in danger of getting locked up in its own image." Surrounded by new glass and concrete buildings, "it had something of the aspect of a fortress held at siege by change." Then Thomson arrived. "On a darkening evening last January, anyone looking across from Blackfriars Station to the lighted windows in Printing House Square might have been pardoned for imagining he saw the whole edifice down on its haunches ready to spring." It sprang. "Times correspondents were told to take off their masks and come out into the open, bylined...