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Students going to Harvard's field station in Chiapas, Mexico, are Mary H. Anschuetz '68 of Briggs Hall and Alton, Ill.; John B. Haviland '66 of Leverett House and New Orleans, La.; Judith E. Merkel '68 of Warner House and Garrison, Md.; Ronald L. Trosper '67 of Dunster House and Milwaukee...
...Baathist cliques, and being Syrians, Jadid's men naturally began plotting a coup to topple Hafez from his position as head of the powerful Presidency Council, which serves as a sort of collective chief of state. Two days before the revolt was to come off last month, the garrison commander at Horns jumped the gun by arresting three pro-Hafez officers-counting on Syria's notoriously poor telephone and telegraph communications to keep the word from reaching the capital 90 miles away. The news got back anyway, and the conspiratorial commanders were arrested. In a ten-hour showdown...
...division's assistant commander, Brigadier General John M. Wright, took machete in hand to show his men how to do it, chopping away the scrub without disturbing the grass, so as to avoid dust storms as the choppers rotated in and out. Today the First Team's garrison at An Khe is the largest concentration of fighting men and machinery in Southeast Asia since the French left Indo-China in 1954-and predictably its well-turfed 12,000-sq.-ft. helipad is known far and wide as "the golf course...
...face he was more properly addressed as "Mr. Ambassador," and in Affairs at State, retired U.S. Diplomat Henry Serrano Villard, 65, describes him and his breed with an insider's sympathy and savvy. He is admirably equipped for the job. A great-grandson of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, Villard joined the Foreign Service in 1928 after graduation from Harvard and a brief try at teaching and journalism, spent the next 34 years in outposts from Tripoli and Teheran to Rio and Oslo as the U.S. inexorably enlarged its international role...
Park's warning was in response to week-long clashes between the police and student mobs numbering as many as 10,000. With more than 400 cops nursing wounds and bruises, Park declared garrison law and rushed the front-line 6th Division into the capital city of Seoul. Several hours before he spoke, soldiers stormed the University of Korea campus, cracked the heads of rock-throwing students, routed others from classrooms and a cafeteria with tear-gas grenades. Sobbed a coed: "How can they do this? How can they treat students on campus like enemy soldiers...