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Suddenly the war in Viet Nam was a big story again. TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Peter Range was hardly back from covering the desperate situation in Cambodia when the South Vietnamese government decided to abandon a large portion of the country in a strategic withdrawal. After a hectic scramble for transportation, Range managed to cadge a seat on a flight to Danang, terminus for streams of refugees from the northern provinces. His eyewitness report accompanies this week's cover story...
Condon admits that such hectic shifts are not routine, but feels that for him they occur too often. He believes that tired physicians may overlook things in their examinations and "minimize the symptoms." He argues that, while fatigue is bad for a physician, it is even worse for his patient...
...honest attempt by committee chairman James Q. Wilson and ten others to stave off possible University vs. city collision and recommend community policy changes, has been all but buried by dust--and a hefty supply of interim and long range planning reports. The Faculty, "adopted" the report in a hectic April 1969 meeting, passed it on to the Administration, and saw few of its suggestions implemented. Neither did the residents of Cambridge...
...still in business," said Kissinger as his Air Force jet soared between Cairo and Damascus in a hectic shuttle that also included a second visit to Jerusalem and brief meetings with King Hussein in Jordan and with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. At week's end, Kissinger confirmed that he would indeed return to the area for another round of talks...
...board felt that the original decision to get rid of ROTC had been taken in rather hectic circumstances," Lyons said...