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...entry fee for insurance, and $200 to charity. Everybody pays for transport and gas. Plus the traffic fines, which are not inconsiderable. The Cadillac boys had about a half a dozen apprehensions, which cost them dear time in their race with the Ferrari. And one entrant was stopped at gunpoint for looking suspicious in Arizona...
...Ranh Bay, a once impregnable U.S. base visited by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966, leaderless marines went on a rampage when their evacuation ships arrived from Danang. They took over cars and Jeeps at gunpoint, robbing fellow refugees at random. Soldiers even fired on American helicopters and chartered aircraft seeking to land in Cam Ranh. The situation was so bad that field commanders in the military region around Saigon were ordered to execute rioting troops on the spot; one commander in Binh Tuy province east of Saigon ordered some troops shot for indiscipline...
Though the ujamaa program has caused considerable unhappiness, Nyerere is sticking to his 1976 deadline for relocating most of the rural population. Already thousands of small holders have been forced off their land, some at gunpoint. In a few cases, huts were burned to force peasants into unfinished villages with roofless homes and no running water. So far Nyerere, who is still respectfully called Mwalimu (Swahili for teacher), has not been widely blamed for the bungling. But discontent is deepening. Signs have appeared on the walls of Dar es Salaam: MWALIMU, IF YOU ARE TIRED OF RUNNING THE COUNTRY...
...three students reported in October that they had been robbed at gunpoint of $100 by two men who had entered their room asking to borrow matches. Eight days later, their room was broken into and a stereo valued at $1700 was stolen...
Three armed youths took $477 in cash at gunpoint from two Harvard seniors and four others in a Monday night robbery at Winthrop House...