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Last week thousands of islanders streamed into the sleepy seaport town of Peikiang for the goddess's annual birthday celebration. While there are 383 Matsu temples on the island, Pei-kiang's is the oldest, and thus the most revered. Carrying their Matsu idols in little sedan chairs, the pilgrims jammed Peikiang's streets, exploding firecrackers and enjoying such sights as a parade of elegant floats, like the one at right, portraying ancient Chinese legends...
...week's end, three separate operations had unfolded. In the coastal provinces on the Gulf of Siam, ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops prepared to slice into new infiltration routes that the Communists had been trying to extend from the Cambodian seaport of Kep into the southern part of South Viet Nam. Northwest of Saigon in Tay Ninh province, 18,000 ARVN armored cavalrymen surged over the border into the Parrot's Beak and the Fishhook. Both sanctuaries were cleared out last spring, but now Communist troops were beginning to drift back...
Poland's pre-Christmas riots flared up so suddenly and died down so quickly that people are only now beginning to realize how close the country came to disaster. In the disorders that rocked the seaport towns of Gdansk. Gdynia and Sopot and the industrial center...
...dawned cold and cloudy in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk-a morning of gloom that matched the city's mood. Gdansk (pop. 370,000) had seethed for days with resentment at the Polish government's sudden announcement of a dramatic rise in food prices, the more infuriating since it came just before Christmas. Now, at the Lenin Shipyards, grumbling workers spontaneously protested the hike by refusing to work. Before long, they decided to emphasize their anger by marching from the yards to Communist Party headquarters two miles away. Thus began a week of rioting and death that surpassed...
Some of the most terrifying demonstrations were in Szczecin, Poland's biggest seaport. A Radio Sweden reporter named Anders Thunberg described the scene outside party headquarters. "Tanks have made repeated attacks on the crowd," he said in a brief telephone call to Stockholm. "The people had to give way in order not to be run over. But a mother and her young daughter did not manage to get away. A tank at high speed crushed both of them. A young soldier stood by, crying and watching." The demonstrators, mainly from the Warski shipyards, burned police cars and rampaged through...