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...beyond that to the penthouse where McGovern and his top staff hold out, you've got to be very smooth or very important. The Secret Service stops all traffic on the 16th floor. Secret Servicemen don't bluff. They are everywhere--in boats, helicopters, bushes and cars, and cordoning off the stairwell of the hotel...
SAIGON--The U.S. Command ordered another slowdown in the rate of U.S. withdrawals from Vietnam last week, cutting the rolls by only 500 servicemen, military spokesmen announced yesterday...
...have been combing the country for the terrorists, who have brought West Germany to the edge of hysteria. In the previous two weeks alone, the Bonnie und Clyde gang is believed to have been responsible for six major bombings, including two at U.S. Army installations that killed four U.S. servicemen and injured 41 persons. Modeling themselves on Uruguay's Tupamaro guerrillas, the gang, which numbered about 25 at its zenith, has engaged in a string of brazen bank robberies, car thefts and shoot-outs with police during the past two years. The motive is political. Through acts of violence...
...many Americans over 40, a simple ceremony in Tokyo this week will perhaps serve as a strange and vaguely reassuring reminder of how shallow are the tracks of former wars. During 82 savage and bloody spring days in 1945, 12,300 American servicemen died in the closing months of the Pacific war for the control of Okinawa, a 60-mile-long island in the East China Sea. Early this week, in the gardens of the Imperial Palace, Vice President Spiro Agnew is to read a presidential proclamation, signed by Richard Nixon, that will end the U.S. military occupation of Okinawa...
...reassurance-aimed primarily not at settling specific differences, but at improving the soured diplomatic tone. Mindful that a demonstrator got through police guards last October and grabbed visiting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, the Canadians took extraordinary precautions for Nixon's security. Plainclothes, Mounties, and U.S. Secret Servicemen even hosed down the mushy snowbanks near Parliament Hill, to eliminate the potential threat of snowballs being hurled...