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...them from Indian planes. In nightly blackouts, the road traffic moves along with absolutely no lights, and fear has prevailed so com pletely over common sense that there has probably been more bloodshed in traffic accidents than in the air raids. The government has begun urging motorists only to shield their lights, but peasants throw stones at any car that keeps them on. In this uneasy atmosphere, Pakistani antiaircraft gunners opened up on their own high-flying Sabre jets one evening last week. At one point, the military stationed an antiaircraft ma chine gun atop the Rawalpindi Inter continental Hotel...
...Even so, most Europeans fear a reduction in the U.S. military presence, though the fear is receding because of rapprochement between the West and the Soviet Union. Black-white riots at military bases and reports of declining morale have also reduced European faith in the U.S. defense shield. There will be bitter resistance to paying more...
...into a brawl. Swarming out from a side street, a battalion of young hoods of the extremist Movement of the Revolutionary Left charged the demonstrators along the broad Avenida Providencia. As the leftists began throwing rocks, right-wing youths wearing hard hats entered the fray swinging wooden clubs. When shield-carrying carabineros finally moved in, they unaccountably aimed most of their tear gas and water cannon at the women. Scrambling in retreat, the marchers shouted "Assassins! Assassins...
...years before Betty Friedan-the comics have always appealed to men more than women, to little boys more than little girls. One reason is the inevitable boy companion that the ten-year-old could identify with-Batman's Boy Wonder Robin, the Sandman's Sandy, the Shield's Rusty, to name only a few. Even when the ten-year-old identified too closely with that clever brat on paper as a rival, it was good for sales. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who has lately turned to writing for the theater and the movies (Carnal Knowledge), was both repelled...
...bottles and cups came raining down, groundskeepers came onto the field and attempted to raise the net as a protective shield for the truck. The fans would have none of it. Before the net could be raised very far, they grabbed hold of it and started pulling. Policemen tried to keep the fans from breaking the net, but when a policeman went to one end to stop one group of fans holding the net, their brothers and sisters at the other end would grab hold. The net never went up, and the truck retreated...