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...black bus, its windows wire-meshed to ward off rocks and grenades, rolled through the gate into Tan Son Nhut Air base on the edge of Saigon. Special police and South Vietnamese air force guards???ordinarily sticklers for formality?barely glanced up as they waved the vehicle on. Among the mixed load of American and Vietnamese passengers was Howard Hagen, an aircraft technician from Odessa, Texas, and more recently from Danang, South Viet Nam. "I just wish it hadn't turned out this way," said Hagen. "I'm leaving with a sad heart...
Hint of Danger. Even as these special precautions were under way, 103 students, aged 14 to 17, from a religious high school in Safad?along with a rabbi, nurses, teachers and two security guards???prepared for their
...moved out." The Ivory Coast planners obviously felt that surprise would stun the enemy. "They never had time to get together," Lieut. Petrie said. "They never expected an American force to come blooping down on them." Had the prisoners been there, though, there would have been many more guards???and their rifles could have damaged the American helicopters seriously. Indeed, some critics of the operation think that had the prisoners been there, disaster would have ensued, that none of the raiders would have come back...
...second mob, however, had rushed down Whitehall, 5,000 strong, heading for No. 10 Downing St., the residence of Prime Minister MacDonald. This mob was briefly checked, until police reserves could rush up and beat it back, by a thin line of ornate, scarlet-coated heroes, the Royal Horse Guards???erroneously supposed by tourists to be good for nothing but the ceremony of "changing the guard...
...most sections it was a fairly friendly strike, with jokes and chaffing between picketers and guards???until last week. Then Louis N. Scherf, whom Governor William H. Adams had placed in charge of the State Law Enforcement Bureau, which was revived to meet the strike conditions, heard of a mass meeting to be held at Boulder prior to an advance on the Columbine mine, one of the few properties in the northern part of the state which had been able to continue operations. Mr. Scherf took a squad of 20 state police and hurried upstate to the Columbine. Adjutant General...