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...permit question, the aura of manufactured crisis still hangs over the demonstrations. Having created the possibility of conflict, the Administration began marshalling a virtual army of police. national guard and regular troops (28,000 from the Washington area. with unspecified numbers on call from beyond a 100-mile radius) to protect the city from a mythical siege. As the government poured out its information about the "violent groups" coming to Washington, it kept the nation abundantly informed of the rising numbers of troops it is holding in the wings...
...post on China is also in Mongolia, and Peking has begun to speak derisively of Mongolia as a Russian "colony." The Soviet Union enjoys military superiority everywhere along the border. The Chinese airfields nearest to the Ussuri fighting point, for example, are at least 250 miles away; within that radius, Russia has 50 airfields. Russian pilots on reconnaissance missions constantly overfly the outward few miles of Chinese territory. Some of the Soviet units stationed along the border are equipped with rockets, and nearly all have the latest and best Russian guns and military vehicles. Even in the contest to populate...
...growing Soviet campaign to choke off contacts between foreign newsmen and Soviet citizens, most notably the intellectuals who some times slip protest manifestoes to Western journalists. Since last April, Shub and the New York Times' 's Henry Kamm have been barred from traveling beyond a 25-mile radius from Moscow...
...person with a bullhorn powered by flashlight batteries can be heard effectively over a radius of 50 yards...
...girl who was attacked--who asked to remain unidentified--said, "I feel very strongly that a warning should be issued to girls in the Square radius." She added that "the large number of similar incidents makes extreme precautions necessary...