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...gates of the Yard every Friday and Satur-should be halted. For the dubious gain of ridding the Yard of "townies," the policy causes great inconvenience to students attempting to pass through the Yard. What is more, it fosters an unhealhy impression of he University as a hostile fortress seeking to seclude itself from the outside world...
...some 350 Montagnard mercenaries, their families and their 20 green-bereted American Special Forces advisers, A Shau in the best of times was an uneasy home. A barbed-wire and earthen-walled fortress bordered by a small airstrip, A Shau stood deep in Viet Cong-controlled territory not far from the Ho Chi Minh trail on the Laotian border. The camp existed for only one reason: to monitor traffic coming down the trail. Over the months, a kind of truce between the local Viet Cong and the Special Forces had evolved: live and let live by leaving each other alone...
...bravery of its defenders, A Shau was a lost fortress, and reluctantly the allies decided to "close the camp." In two days, rescue helicopters plucked 204 survivors, twelve of them American, from the ruins of A Shau. The rest of A Shau's defenders were dead or missing, but the North Vietnamese had paid dearly for their victory in an estimated 500 dead of their...
...trial last week in Havana's grim La Cabaña fortress was Rolando Cubela Secades, 33, Fidel Castro's former chief student organizer and gun-slinging bullyboy for the University of Havana. His crime: plotting to assassinate Castro, by means of a high-range rifle with a telescopic sight imported from Spain...
...time Ellis Island will be further enriched. Johnson foresees more recreational facilities, a fortress-shaped restaurant, a pyramidal viewing platform. But the first task, Johnson explains, is to "stabilize the ruins, preserve the nostalgia." Secretary Udall, for one, was delighted. Said he: "Here we see what art and architecture and history can do when we bring them all together...