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Into the Sun. A man who cherishes his privacy, Gardner once said: "I have strong feelings about the peace and quiet of my back garden and the excitement of the main highway. I love them both, and I hope I don't have to give up either." The back garden has suffered somewhat in the past 18 months, but he still manages to take long walks. He used to play golf, but with typical thoroughness began charting his game on a graph, saw no signs of improvement, and stashed his left-handed clubs...
Blocking Forces. Last week's drive, known as Operation Cedar Falls, was different. Before the main attack force of U.S. battalions made its sweep, the entire triangle was surrounded to cut off escape routes. Battalions of Vietnamese army regulars and U.S. troops were stationed along the perimeter to serve as blocking forces, and fleets of barges fitted out with "quad-fifties" (clusters of four .50-caliber machine guns) patrolled the rivers. But the object of the operation was not simply to trap Viet Cong, even though 286 were killed and 64 captured during the week. This time the Americans...
...Cultural Revolution in that coastal city were also launching countermarches and bankrolling batches of workers on trips to Peking, ostensibly to "report conditions" but actually "to sabotage production and communication." As a result, complained the Red Guards, "the water is stirred and has become murky, and the main orientation of the struggle is changed, so that in the confusion the dreadful conse quences of this will be blamed on the revolutionary leftists"-meaning the loyal Maoists themselves...
Paranoid Violence. The men responsible for all of this comprise a remarkably young group of radical leaders who belong to the far-left wing of the Baath Party, a mystical Arab brotherhood whose main aim is the nationalization of everything and everyone in the Middle East. Since they seized power from a more moderate group of Baathists last year, Syria's new leaders have turned the country onto a path of near-paranoid violence. Oddly enough, the three men who administer the government are all trained physicians: Premier Youssef Zayyen, 36; Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, 37; and Foreign...
...Gulf Stream, the Bahamas have a population of only 140,000 people, 85% of them Negro. Yet for many years the islands' fate has been held firmly in the hands of a tight little group of white businessmen known as the "Bay Street Boys," after the main street of the capital of Nassau. The group's two dozen members controlled both Bahamian commerce and politics through their predominantly white United Bahamian Party. Last week the Boys got quite a setback...