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Curious crowds gathered around the Kiosk, on the Mass. Ave. traffic island opposite the demonstrators, and on the sidewalk where the picketing was occurring. The first trouble came at about 1:25 p.m. when some people standing on the traffic island began chanting "We Want Marx" and "McNamara for President...
...name. Syria was a charnel house. In the midland city of Hama, mothers wailed over the bodies of dead sons, the famed Sultan Mosque lay in ruins, and the corpse of one rebel leader, riddled with 50 bullets, was contemptuously dumped by soldiers from an open jeep onto the sidewalk. The bloody-handed Baath (Renaissance) Party was again engaged in its favorite pastime: killing...
Sheldon Dietz '41, one of the three members of the Church St. Trust, which drafted the design, said that he thought the Coop was "making a very serious mistake" by keeping is plan basically unchanged. The Church St. proposal, which features trees and a wide sidewalk, would preserve the 120-year-old Hawkins building, which the Coop bought last summer...
...ruler, General Nguyen Khanh, who seems sincere and energetic in his efforts to press the anti-Communist war. But Saigon's politicians are once again engaged in their petty intrigues, which prompted the late President Ngo Dinh Diem to keep them under firm control. Sipping coffee at sidewalk cafes, Saigon's intelligentsia carp about Khanh's attempts to rally the capital into the backlands war it has so long regarded as something apart. The Premier has ordered all male university graduates to report to military school, plans to assign able-bodied male civilians in Saigon to part...
...neutralist-rightist armies fire dutifully at each other amid the gigantic burial urns on the Plain of Jars, usually trying not to hit each other but still taking a daily toll of human life. Recently, gunfire erupted one night in the backwater capital of Vientiane (two stop lights, one sidewalk). It was an eclipse of the moon, and to the natives that meant but one thing: a frog, presumably inhabited by an evil spirit, was swallowing the moon. The gunfire broke out when everyone, following tradition, began shooting at the moon to frighten away Mr. Frog...