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Signs in the reading room warn: "Please watch your wallets, purses, and other personal possessions." Readers are not warned about the sexual perverts who, a few times each month, harass women readers. There are the "mirror guys," men with pop-down mirrors on canes that they slide under reading-room tables, the flashers and the touchers...
...Another cop, just as Irish as the first, lists the kinds of "maggots" the observer will see. "There will be lots of wallet lifters, and some of the guys who just grab ladies' necklaces and take off with them; and then there's punks, and they just like to harass people...
Despite a costly five-year military campaign, an armed rebellion among the Muslim Moros in Mindanao and Sulu has been contained but not suppressed. In other rural regions, the smaller Maoist New Peoples Army is growing in size. Marauding bands of N.P.A. guerrillas frequently harass army patrols and sometimes even occupy isolated villages for several days at a time. Few Filipinos, and even fewer knowledgeable Western observers, are convinced that the country is on the verge of becoming another Iran. But many fear that in the long run the confluence of injustice and bloodshed could threaten the Marcos regime...
Hanoi's biggest headache is in Cambodia, where elements of four Khmer Rouge divisions loyal to deposed Premier Pol Pot are still able to terrorize civilians and harass Vietnamese units immobilized by the monsoons. Last month Khmers thought to be loyal to Hanoi's new regime in Phnom-Penh expelled the Vietnamese garrison from the river port of Kratie. Though the town was quickly recaptured, the startled Vietnamese began to transfer Pathet Lao troops from Laos as a means of guaranteeing village security...
Students and faculty members formed the Committee to Reinstate Sherman Holcombe, charging that Montville's explanation of the suspension was a cover for the dining hall management's decision to harass Holcombe for criticizing management practices...