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Yellow Fire. The first clash occurred when General Kouprasith, returning to his headquarters east of Vientiane, crashed his car through a "blue" roadblock; a hail of bullets killed three...
...Washington last week, efforts to apply this standard to diplomatic traffic violators ran into a solid roadblock. Foreign ambassadors had received a letter from Secretary of State Dean Rusk, notifying them that in the future diplomats would be expected to pay their traffic fines. In the first ten days, 205 cars with DPL plates were ticketed, and 46 fines were actually paid. But by then diplomatic indignation was running so high that the dean of the diplomatic corps, Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, waited on Dean Rusk in person with a protest. Sheepishly the State Department backed up. The police...
With two other teachers, I headed toward the downtown area. We passed milling crowds of Africans and Arabs in the streets, but saw no signs of other vehicles or of soldiers. However, we soon reached a bridge leading to the town's center and ran directly into a roadblock of soldiers who, pointing guns at our tires and faces, quickly persuaded us to return the way we had come. Though not proficient in Swahili, we found that our comprehension was almost perfect...
...closing down. Chairman Jordan seems disposed to go along with McLendon. Naturally enough, the Republican minority would like to turn the Baker affair into an attack on Lyndon Johnson next fall; the Democrats, just as naturally, are reluctant to let things go too far. Looming ahead is a certain roadblock. The Senate's upcoming debate on the civil rights bill will bring most committee hearings to a standstill...
...with kidnaping him last Dec. 8, young Sinatra said he had been taken from his Lake Tahoe motel room "at gunpoint" but had then stretched out quietly- without being bound or gagged-in the back seat of the kidnapers' car. Later, he continued, when the car approached a roadblock full of lawmen, he suggested to his kidnapers that they might fool the cops by telling them that "we've been to a party and I've had too much to drink...