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...fact, Warsaw's claims of normality were buffeted on several fronts last week. In the western city of Poznan, site of the bloody "bread and freedom" riots of 1956, 194 protesters were reportedly jailed after marching through the streets bearing leaflets proclaiming DEATH TO THE REDS. In a Warsaw streetcar, a police sergeant was gravely wounded when an unidentified attacker shot him in the stomach and fled. In addition, a number of minor bombings were reported...
...Administration cannot make up its mind about how to base the MX missile, but the Air Force has successfully staged the first test launching of a dummy MX at a site near Las Vegas. The projectile had no propellants, electronics or warhead, but was the same size, shape and weight as an actual MX. At left, the missile is ejected from a canister by steam and gas pressure, a system adapted from submarine missile-launching devices. As the mock-up rises into the air, some of the rectangular plastic pads, designed to steady the missile until it leaves the canister...
...pain be eased too, when ground is broken in a few days on the Washington Mall for the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. Fifty men who fought in the war will each turn a spade of earth on a spot of hallowed ground 75 yards from Constitution Avenue. The site is by design beneath the gaze of Abraham Lincoln, who held the Union together, and in the morning shadow of the Washington Monument, commemorating the man who guided the Revolution. It is ground where the Viet Nam protesters marched and tented ("It is our turn on the Mall," says Scruggs...
...coming together finally in human tribute. G.I.s and Presidents will walk side by side in memory. Differences will merge. The memorial design is by a Chinese American, Maya Ying Lin, 22. The monument's sponsors are asking that demonstrators for any cause be perpetually banned from the site (as they are in Arlington National Cemetery), so that the tribute to sacrifice will not be corrupted by partisan politics or positions...
...NOTEBOOK: Yale's Payne Whitney Gym has been kind to the Crimson this season. The site of the Howe Cup championships two weeks ago, the New Haven facility has now seen Harvard knock off the numbers two, three and four teams in the country a total of four times all by scores...