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...scheduled for later this year. But in contrast to the first disturbances, which involved only a few thousand students and were primarily limited to Seoul, the capital, last week's demonstrations drew crowds as large as 50,000 and flared in more than two dozen cities. In the southern port of Pusan, according to some reports, protesters burned five municipal buses and seized a garbage truck as a makeshift barricade. In Taejon a crowd of 6,000 marchers fire-bombed two police stations. On Wednesday night alone, crowds laid siege to 17 police outposts, two Democratic Justice Party district offices...
...Neckar. Then a corvette struck the German craft with eight 30-mm shells, setting her stern gun turret afire and punching a hole in her hull beneath the waterline. Three crewmen were injured. After the fire was put out and the leak plugged, the Neckar limped into its home port of Kiel. To prevent damage to NATO-Warsaw Pact relations, Bonn described the attack as an accident, perhaps caused by the poor aim of Polish gunners. Warsaw began an investigation into the occurrence...
...threat of some Iranian response "quite high." This prompted House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin to complain that the Administration clearly had not figured out what it was getting into. There are suspicions that Iran has set up mines in the waters of Kuwait's primary oil port at Al-Ahmadi. Should a ship hit one of them, said Aspin, it would be "something on which there are no Iranian fingerprints." Thus the U.S. would be less able to retaliate. Another threat is the Chinese-made Silkworm missiles that Iran is deploying along the Strait of Hormuz. They have...
...ideas. No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that. And if we're going to move toward those things we'd like to have, we must have the young people to ask the new, reasonable questions. A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. And I want every one of you to be good ships and sail out and do the new things and move us toward the future...
...them and breaking car windows. The mob then charged 1,000 Indians in a city park and began punching and kicking them. An army unit finally had to be called to assist police in breaking up the melee. Both Australia and New Zealand had ships standing by near the port of Suva to bring out their nationals in case the rioting escalated...