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...slipping through jungle are still hard to stop. Two months ago, a French planter in South Viet Nam was captured by the Viet Cong. Before he was freed, he reports, his captors were bombed for 17 days but kept moving. Total guerrilla casualties: one dead. Further, as was shown in Korea, masses of manpower can repair roads and makeshift bridges overnight. Says a U.S. military officer in Laos: "A 500-lb. bomb makes a hole five feet deep and ten feet across. With 50 coolies filling the hole and packing it with a battering ram the road can be ready...
...Freed from the status-quo psychology that Government ownership induced, GAF intends to fight for a larger share of the U.S. chemical market. Werner plans to enlarge laboratory facilities and acquire more of the raw-material facilities on which GAF depends for supplies. GAF's future is as unpredictable as its past might have been if it had remained a free agent...
...returned to the courtroom and made a strategic-and temporary-surrender. "In view of the fact that we feel the ruling is wrong," said Owen to Commissioner Carter, "we will simply not produce any more evidence on any of the cases." With that, Miss Carter dismissed the charges and freed the defendants...
...appeared from nowhere to grab the microphone. Before 13,000 astonished spectators, a campus policeman then grabbed Savio around the throat while another twisted his arm in a hammer lock. They dragged him away fighting, while a reporter thoughtfully held a microphone to his face. Minutes later, Savio was freed and when F.S.M. partisans yelled "We want Mario," he naturally had to be allowed to make his speech. It was really no speech at all, just a masterfully brief and low-keyed announcement of an F.S.M. rally...
Savio said that the Free Speech Movement had freed faculty members from the oppression of the administration. "Men whose spirits had been crushed back in the oath fight [when all faculty members were required to sign a loyalty cath], were released to stand up for their rights...