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...Dubcek as Svoboda had shown. Many of them wore red, white and blue corsages and carried IVAN GO HOME! placards. Thev burned propaganda leaflets dropped from Soviet helicopters. Hundreds of thousands of citizens in fac tories, sports clubs and professional associations signed petitions calling upon Svoboda to declare Czechoslovakia neu tral and withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. Radio Prague began broadcasting the license-plate numbers of secret police cars so that people could slash their tires...
...mutual pullback." North Vietnamese forces move back toward the frontier, U.S. troops to the populated areas. An international force from neu tral nations steps in and a cease-fire begins. As the North Vietnamese fall back, the U.S. withdraws 75,000 troops as "a sure sign of good faith...
...pagan rites of spring. To welcome the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese housewives last week prepared mounds of hanh chung - rice cakes covered with a stew of pork fat, pickled onions and rancid fish sauce. Fathers wrapped money in red paper for the children and raised the cay neu, a 30-ft. bamboo pole topped with offerings of betel nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head for the stars to report to the Emperor of Jade, thus leaving the world to the evil offices of fork-tongued devils...
Reynolds is building a 14-acre $30 million plant that will increase its capacity 30% next year. Last week Reynolds announced that it is moving into Europe, buying a 51% interest in West Germany's second largest cigarette firm of Haus Neu-erburg. Does the cancer talk give Gray pause? Says he: "I just don't believe...
...industrial town of Neu-Spuhl has dug out of its wartime ruins and is booming. It is ugly, and the reddish dust from a nearby factory settles over everything. But there is plenty of money, and keeping up with the Schmidts has become a fulltime job. The crassness of the parents rubs off on the kids; already the teenagers are deciding club membership by family wealth and measuring the success of a vacation by the money spent...