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...Force and the Navy. He ordered assault troops?supported by warships, fighter-bombers and helicopters?to invade a tiny island of disputed nationality where the crewmen were thought (erroneously) to be held. To prevent a Cambodian counterstrike, he ordered two much disputed bombing raids of the Cambodian mainland. At home and abroad, some political experts thought that the show of force, which had many of the gung-ho elements of a John Wayne movie, was excessive. The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun asked, "Why did [the U.S.] have to use a cannon to shoot a chicken...
...South Vietnamese C130; at the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay, 110 miles from Clark, where about 6,000 were staying; and at Thailand's Utapao Airbase, where almost 3,000 Vietnamese sought refuge. Soon they would be moving on to three military bases on the U.S. mainland-Camp Pendleton, Calif., Fort Chaffee, Ark., and Eglin Air Force Base, Pla.-where they will remain until the U.S. Government has figured out what to do with them (see THE NATION...
...bottleneck in the process had been immigration. But last week the 80 immigration officers and clerks flown to Guam were working 12-to 16-hour shifts, processing 3,000 Vietnamese a day. By week's end 17,000 refugees had been cleared and were flown to the U.S. mainland...
...week's end several planeloads of evacuees had reached the U.S. mainland. The Christian Church in Los Gates, south of San Francisco, suddenly found itself providing food and shelter for some 150 Vietnamese. In Mount Angel, Ore. (pop. 2,200), townspeople had expected to take care of 40 crippled Vietnamese children. But five yellow school buses disgorged an additional 133 refugees, including some adults. Cots were quickly installed in the Oktoberfest beer hall...
...Although it has been developing for 30 years, salsa is a new musical adventure for most Latinos as well as for Americans. Its roots extend back to Cuban dance music of previous decades like the rumba. After 1961, when the U.S. suspended relations with Cuba, emigrant Latin musicians and mainland-born Puerto Ricans gradually fused their own style with elements of American rock, soul and especially jazz. The result was salsa's singing dances. They are a combination of pungent vocal melodies challenged by complex instrumental counterrhythms...