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...Gauntlet. Like the ground war, the air war has subsided in South Viet Nam only to continue in Laos and Cambodia. By some measures, American air activity is way down; since the peak days of 1968, aircraft sorties have declined by 65%, while the number of U.S. combat planes in the area has dropped from 1,350 to about...
...Vopo by pressing a black plastic button beside the door. Then they must cross the sandy death strip under the watchful eyes of Vopo sharpshooters and pass through yet another door in a second wall to reach their homes. A German family carrying picnic baskets through this grim gauntlet is one of the more memorable sights of post-Wall Berlin...
...bill's progress through the legislative gauntlet, where several of the President's key programs have previously been whipped to the sidelines, has been enormously helped by the Capitol Hill diplomacy of Treasury Secretary John Connally. Last week, while testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, Connally cannily gave his blessing to several "reasonable" changes drafted by the House, including more tax relief for low-income families. He also accepted a House measure raising the standard rate of proposed investment tax credit from 5% to 7%. In order to give the economy a greater initial spurt, however, he asked...
...Gauntlet of Guards...
...attack apparently did not subside with the end of the shooting. Guardsman James P. Watson, 24, a law student, testified in a federal court that unresisting naked convicts, standing with hands on heads, were poked in the groin, rectum and legs with clubs to make them run through a gauntlet of guards, who kicked and beat them. Some inmates fell, he said, and guards chased others into a building. Standing near by, Watson heard "screams and moans and the sounds of clubs hitting flesh and bone." Days later, four outside doctors confirmed reports of brutality...