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Members of the French Canadian Front de Libération du Québec train in the Middle East, where among other things they learn assassination tactics. The bodies of an Eritrean and a Turk have been found among those of Palestinian guerrillas ambushed by the Israelis in the Jordan River valley; presumably they were on patrol as part of their training for eventual operations at home...
...boasted of attending three highly liquid receptions a night. In a country where Johnnie Walker Black Label costs upwards of $30 a fifth, the government allowed the delegates to buy three bottles of whisky a week in a duty-free store that was opened for them and increased that ration for parties. One African delegate joked that UNCTAD had set up still another committee, "the extracurricular-activities committee, and it is the busiest...
...reportage and analysis: although he may frankly admit that he does not understand the political situation, he never fails to include small details that make up living: the headlines on newspaper posters, the the small talk of the infantry messes and pubs, and quantity and quality of the tobacco ration...
...flags, as Overney was buried at Père Lachaise cemetery, the place where the Communards of 1871 had been put against the wall and shot to death. Conspicuously absent from the funeral were members of the powerful French Communist Party, whose union-the Confédération Générate du Travail (CGT) -represents the Renault workers. Mindful of the popular backlash in 1968 that made the Gaullists stronger than ever, and still eager to establish their political respectability, the Communists decried the disruptive tactics of the gauchistes. But they did denounce the Overney killing...
...second part of the meeting, Ernest R. May, associate dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Education, read the results of a survey of the departments of the Faculty. May reported on the ration of faculty to students, size of courses, and number of teaching fellows in the departments...