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Nearly 4000 demonstrators stoned U.S. bases and soldiers Monday in Qui Nhon, a city 275 miles northeast of Saigon. The riots erupted after an American soldier shot and killed a local high school student...
...disturbances began Monday afternoon and continued into Tuesday night. They were the worst riots in Qui Nhon, South Vietnam's fourth largest city, since the 1966 student rebellion against the Ky regime...
...deciding America's Cup race last week than the spectator boat America, a replica of the schooner that first won the cup in 1851, hoisted the signal flags for Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum-which was to be proved). A more fitting postscript would have been V.Q.P., for vincit qui patitur-he that can endure overcometh. In defeating Gretel II by 4-1 in the best-of-seven series, Intrepid had endured the longest (14 days) and strongest challenge in decades...
When white officers at Chu Lai refused to give rides to black Marines, they were severely beaten. Later name-calling whites triggered a riot at the enlisted men's club; two whites were so badly injured that they were evacuated home. Clubs at Qui Nhon and a dozen other places have been wrecked by racial melees...
Call to Dad On election night, Heath arrived early at the local Tory headquarters in his constituency of Bexley, in Kent. Shortly after 6, he began placing phone calls to Tory election agents around the coun- try. As he sipped his tea and spoke qui etly on the phone, some of the half a dozen friends in the room noticed Heath's eyes take on a sudden light...