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...security aides urged him to get into a heavily guarded limousine. Ten agents followed his limo in an open car, brandishing Uzi submachine guns. The caravan returned the President to Eisenhower Cabin, a white-columned six-bedroom house from which Ike, while President, had often played the pine-studded course...
...lived and worked for 42 years and raised 14 children. In the past six weeks, he has been shot at and his home has been riddled by bullets and scarred by bombs. Hawkins' response: "The only way they are going to get me to leave is in a pine box." Last week police officials and local politicians took note of the battle and descended on the Hawkins home to pledge their support. Declared Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley: "We don't intend to turn one inch of this city over to hoodlums. You are not alone...
Next day, after an early morning flight to Ningpo's carefully guarded airport, Chiang bounced and jostled by auto over a one-lane dirt road some 40 miles to Fenghwa, his home town, in the knob-topped Sze Ming Mountains. Nestled on a pine and laurel-covered slope is the Gimo's one-story, four-room retreat. A few feet up the slope is a wood and stone arch inscribed with the legend: "Road to Mother Chiang's Tomb." Through it passes a wide-stepped pebble and flagstone walk...
...that the port in Puerto Castilla was developed by a private U.S.-Honduran joint venture that, at the point of failure, miraculously found new financial backing. Whatever the case, without the facility the U.S. would not have been able to land equipment for the Seabees, let alone mount Big Pine...
...wished aloud that Congress would permit the Administration to send more military assistance to the troubled Central American isthmus. Said Weinberger: "What is important is a steady supply of aid, and being able to plan ahead." He also expressed a wish to return to the area. Doubtless, if Big Pine II proceeds according to schedule, Weinberger will have that chance...