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...northeast corner of Haiti one morning last week, a band of Haitian exiles led by former army officers waded back into their homeland. Still dripping wet, silver-haired General Léon Cantave, 53, quickly organized his meager forces. Then they all marched off to overthrow, or at least harass, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's brutal dictator...
...newly arrived group of Allied officer prisoners, "and we intend to watch that basket very carefully. With your cooperation, we may all sit out the war very comfortably." But every man in the maximum-security camp knows it is an officer's duty to escape and harass the enemy. The Great Escape, based on Paul Brickhill's first-hand account, tells in almost hypnotic detail how a mixed bag of P.W.s work together to pull off one of the most ingenious and highhearted capers in military history...
...some irate Aspenites to call for a police crackdown on all young people. But the Aspen Times editorialized in favor of moderation: "Not having money is no crime, and the fact that some skiers may be temporarily out of work should not give the police the right to harass them." Bars and restaurants try to maintain a close surveillance of identity cards to avoid selling liquor to those under 21, or beer to those under 18, but with beer being sold by the pitcher, the law is hard to enforce...
...whatever they thought of his economics, virtually all U.S. businessmen were outraged by the tactics Kennedy used against Blough; the Administration's threats to deny U.S. Steel defense contracts and to harass the company with trustbusters and internal revenue agents raised business hackles as they had not been raised since the days of F.D.R. A number of grown-up businessmen sported "S.O.B. Club'' pins. Behind the anger was the fear that the Government would meddie in every labor settlement, clamp down on every price rise, and thus discourage all businessmen from undertaking any expansion or modernization. Said Chase Manhattan Bank...
...enemy advances, retreat; if he halts, harass; if he retreats, attack." Thus Mao Tse-tung advised Communist revolutionaries, and in South Viet Nam last week the Red Viet Cong scrupulously followed Mao's injunctions-with both success and failure...