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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling that his sacrifices meant something. For the Viet Nam veteran, coming home was far less glorious. "You know about the class of '46, the guys who came back after World War II, greeted with parades and jobs," says Alan Fitzgerald, 30, a drafted infantryman who fought near the Cambodian border in 1970. "When I came back and landed at San Francisco airport with 200 others, we were spit on and kicked...
Veterans Administrator Max Cleland, 36, whose right arm and both legs were blown away by a grenade near Khe Sanh, has begun pushing programs to alleviate some of the Viet vets' problems. Among the initiatives...
...drive right over the corpses." There were reports of widespread recriminations against Ugandan Muslims, who constitute only 6% of the population but were favored by Amin, himself a Muslim. The Ugandans also took revenge on soldiers sent to Amin's aid by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. Continued Ngala: "Near Jinja, there has been indiscriminate killing of Libyans and other Muslim soldiers. Heads of the dead have been hung on sticks and placed by the roadsides; bodies have been hung from trees." One old man, pointing to a Libyan who had been hanged, remarked, "It is difficult to forgive soldiers...
...several devastating Rhodesian air attacks on other ZAPU camps in Zambia last week, began before dawn. A white-led force of Rhodesia's Special Air Service (SAS) commandos and black troops from the elite Selous Scouts slipped into Zambia, apparently by helicopter. The raiders attacked a military post near the border, commandeered several camouflaged Land Rovers and set out for Lusaka, 62 miles away. At about 3 a.m. they arrived in Woodlands, a section of Lusaka where Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, several foreign diplomats and Nkomo maintain their homes. The Rhodesians killed Nkomo's drowsy bodyguards...
Peter Kosewski, a spokesman for Articulture, said the festival came about as a result of the near-unanimous responses to a questionnaire sent to 150 New England dance companies. "One hundred per cent said there is a need for a collaborative program which would remove needless duplication of effort, 100 per cent said there is a need for a concerted effort to develop a dance audience, and 100 per cent said a major problem was the cost of procuring space in which to perform--in a regulation high school auditorium, two leaps puts you in the audience," Kosewski commented...