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...After the Mayaguez, a small U.S. merchant ship headed for Thailand, was seized by a Cambodian gunboat, President Ford ordered a military rescue by 1,100 Marines. All 39 Mayaguez crewmen were freed, but at the cost of 41 U.S. servicemen killed and 50 wounded...
...hasty departure was the result of an agreement reached Saturday between the guerrillas and the Colombian government, which had been painstakingly negotiating for the release of the hostages since the takeover. Thirty-seven of the 56 people originally held at the embassy had already been freed; one other had escaped. Throughout the numerous bargaining sessions, the government had steadfastly refused to consider the guerrillas' demand for the release of their imprisoned comrades. In the end, the terrorists settled for safe-conduct passes out of the country and an estimated $2.5 million ransom, apparently paid by private sources and foreign...
Shortly before takeoff, the freed Ambassadors of Venezuela, Israel, Egypt and the Dominican Republic descended the steps of the four-engine Soviet-built Ilyushin jetliner and were driven across the airfield in a speeding bus. One of them, Dominican Ambassador Diogenes Mallol, praised Colombian President Julio César Turbay Ayala for handling "this problem with prudence and calm," adding that "only in the beginning were we in danger because the terrorists were very nervous. Then everything calmed down." Another, Venezuelan Ambassador Virgilio Lovera, jubilantly told reporters: "I feel like running a mile in the Olympics...
...humanists--scholar/teachers like Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate deal for undergraduate education, and Michael Walzer, professor of Government--leave Harvard for other ivory towers where they will no longer teach. Professional school applications jump. And as the Core lumbers ineffectively into operation, faculty return to their consultancies and publishers, freed of the danger of confronting liberal arts for yet another generation...
Bail. Now the only criterion in noncapital cases for determining whether a suspect should be freed on bail is the likelihood that he will appear for trial. The Senate bill would also allow judges to detain a suspect if he seemed dangerous. The A C.L.U. says that such preventive detention would be a denial of the presumption of innocence. The House version would not change bail procedures...