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Today, Peking teems without being vital. Much of its brooding medieval beauty was lost when the Red regime in the 1950s took down major sections of the massive red gates and walls that once overlooked the Forbidden City. Scenically if not strategically, the vast underground air raid shelter system that was completed in 1970 has been a poor substitute...
...stealing fast cars (they preferred BMWs). According to Ruhland's testimony, the gang lacked neither ideas nor ambition. At one point, they planned to break into a Bundeswehr arms depot at Munsterlager; another time, they hoped to free captured members of their group either by staging a prison raid with a tiny homemade helicopter or by kidnaping Chancellor Willy Brandt and using him in a prisoner exchange...
...February. Shortly before President Nixon flies off on his historic visit to China, all hell suddenly breaks loose in South Viet Nam. From the DMZ to the Delta, North Vietnamese troops raid towns, rocket cities, throw Saigon's forces into confusion. In the vulnerable Central Highlands, the Communists capture the inland city of Kontum and then sweep on to the seacoast, slicing the country...
...reserves; the habit is a reflection of the common burden which gives a necessary unity to the country, and, at the same time, brings the face of war ever so much closer to a population which at any rate never manages to quite escape from it: the air-raid shelters on every street, in every apartment building: the signs, "NO PHOTOGRAPHS - MILITARY INSTALLATION" within the very downtown of major cities; the roadblocks on main arteries of traffic, to prevent the illegal entrance of Arabs from the Occupied Territories; the guards in the movie-houses, checking every pocketbook, every briefcase...
...agents were involved in the raid. They had been tipped off that three ounces of heroin and ten kilos of marijuana, together valued at $15,000, would be delivered to the campus...