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Fire engines have been red for so long (for no visible reason) that the switchover may create problems. Ted Haberman, manager of Pueblo West, Colo., points out that automobile drivers are accustomed to red as the danger color, and that since many Americans ride in air-conditioned cars with the windows rolled up, they may not hear the siren from approaching, unfamiliar lime yellow wagons. Simple tradition may also militate against a wholesale switch from red. But as Dr. Solomon accurately observes: "Firemen have one tradition that is stronger, and that is to stay alive...
...Mexican police had sought to link Hyland with nine alleged members of a revolutionary group known as Command Armado del Pueblo (People's Armed Command) who were seized at about the same time. Hyland said yesterday that one of the nine had died in prison. The remaining eight will face trial in the next few months, he added...
...visible signs, in fact, point to a lessening of tension on the divided peninsula. Incidents along the Demilitarized Zone and elsewhere have fallen off from 761 in 1968 (the year of the U.S.S. Pueblo seizure and the attempt on Park's life by a North Korean death squad) to only 53 so far this year. Representatives of the North and South Korean Red Cross are meeting at Panmunjom in discussions aimed at facilitating direct mail exchanges and family visits across the border...
...bullhorn: "Who wants electricity connected?" Crews scrambled to string up power lines. "Who does not have the telephone he applied for?" Another utility crew rushed to work. Behind the bellowing bullhorn stood a round-faced, chunky woman who is known to Colombia's poor as "La Capitana del Pueblo"-the captain of the people. Once, when pleas for water had gone unheeded, La Capitana and a work crew manned picks and shovels to unearth a water main and hooked up public taps -without city help or approval...
...many accomplishments, Hickel seems proudest of his successful efforts to give Indians top positions in the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He fought for the return of the Blue Lake area sacred to the Taos Pueblo tribe of New Mexico. When the Indians were finally summoned to Washington to receive title to the land, one grateful elder asked: "Where's the Secretary?" Wally Hickel by then had been, in his word, "terminated...