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...headquarters in Hien Nhon. In another, at Long An, raiders smashed a police checkpoint, killing three police. The enemy has good reason to try to cripple the cops. For the Vietnamese in the white uniforms do not handle only the usual policeman's lot of random robbery and mayhem. More and more, they are meeting the guerrillas face to face. "What is the guerrilla if not a criminal?" demands the canh sat commander, Colonel Pham Van Lieu. "He commits all the possible crimes-murder and rape, grand larceny and petty theft, extortion and blackmail...
...FOOTBALL: MAYHEM ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Van Heflin narrates a special on football that includes rare film clips of early games...
Peering through the mayhem is Richard Lester, a director whose style perfectly fits the Beatles' humor--fast-moving, irreverent, surprisingly low key. Although no scene is more than a minute long, and the dialogue is always rapid, there's no tension, just excitement. Lester keeps you aware of the fun he's having in playing with colors, with camera angles, with special effects, and he keeps you interested not only in what the Beatles are going to do, but also in what he's going...
...strapping, hamhanded man with slicked-back hair and brooding mustache, Michelangeli ambled onstage with the baleful nonchalance of a boxer bent on mayhem. Once he settled at the keyboard, his touch was featherweight light, his attack crisp and restrained through Debussy's liquid Images and Beethoven's soaring Sonata in C Major (Opus 2, No. 3). After two encores and a dozen curtain calls, he unconcernedly ambled offstage to a standing ovation. Typically, following his triumph, he repaired last week to the regenerative quietude of a month-long teaching engagement at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Untypically...
Japan had modern democracy thrust upon it by the U.S. conquerors after World War II. The Japanese tradition of obedience made it work rather dutifully and mechanically at first, but today, despite occasional street riots and parliamentary mayhem, Japan shows every sign of developing into one of the world's most intelligent democracies...