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...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...
...want to be a PLA woman to safeguard our motherland," said the third, the one who'd looked amused. So it was clearer than ever how little I knew; because in a battle between her and the vice political commissar, how could I tell who would win, or whether it would even be a contest? All I could tell for sure is that once in a while, now, I miss Shanghai, where the lights stretch on for miles at night but it feels as though everyone knows everyone else. So I guess that will have...
...price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain on my allowance. Thank you. A Concerned Consumer...
...provided plenty of that. Mao first singled out his comrade for the succession in 1966, largely because Lin had instilled the partially demoralized People's Liberation Army with genuine political fervor. So impressed was Mao by the reversal in the army's spirit that he made the PLA the model for the hoped-for political transformation of China over the next several years. In August 1966, at a mass rally in Peking's Tienanmen Square, Lin appeared at Mao's side in place of the relatively moderate President Liu Shao-chi. That marked...
...another compound, hundreds of the rank and file of the PLA pressed against the barbed-wire and called to reporters; Israeli soldiers sporting sub-machine guns converged on them and forced them back to a white, chalk line several feed from the barb wire. One of the prisoners, their spokesman, held up a piece of paper which he promised would prove that they were refugees on the U.N. payroll and not soldiers. The contract, upon closer examination, had expired on May 31, five days before the battle for Gaza; U Thant's withdrawal had left them in the hole...