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...green from Yale. Yale sympathizers were all the more upset two weeks ago when two Panthers, including David Hilliard, the highest-ranking Panther still out of jail, got into a scuffle at the courthouse during pretrial hearings and were summarily sentenced for contempt. Last week both were released-their six-month jail terms reduced to a week-and Hilliard duly addressed 4,500 Yale students at a rally in the hockey rink...
According to the American embassy in Vientiane, there are 2,350 Americans in Laos-833 U.S. Government employees and the rest dependents. The real total is far higher, for the official figures do not include American personnel assigned for three-to six-month temporary tours of duty in Laos, or CIA men who spend their nights in Thailand but commute daily to Long Cheng. Many of them are Green Berets who have completed their Army service and signed up as "spooks." American casualties in Laos are equally difficult to assess. The Pentagon will say only that since...
...gentle Senri Hills just outside Osaka, under a pall of dust visible for miles away, helmeted workmen are bustling to put the finishing touches on what looks like a giant's toy box. Here, three weeks hence, Japan's Expo '70 will begin a six-month run. It is the first world's fair ever to be held in Asia, but amid its architectural anarchy the occasional pagoda or the batwing sail of a Chinese junk seems oddly out of place?and time. From one end of the 815-acre site to the other, the skyline is a futurescape...
...exhibit at Osaka. Paternalism and lifetime employment are still features of Japanese corporations, and Taiyo Kogyo keeps Nakatani happy with a six-month salary bonus every year and a new-car loan every two years. Corporate entertainment allowances total $2 billion a year in Japan, and Nakatani spends a good chunk of his $1,600 share taking foreign customers to geisha parties. But he is not a kimono chaser. That tradition is beginning to fade, albeit slowly, as Japan's women become more assertive...
...Russians were heavy drinkers long before the Revolution, and Communism has not changed that. Lenin & Co. learned as much when, in an effort to conserve potatoes and grain, they continued a World War I liquor prohibition into the mid-1920s; during one six-month period, the Soviet militia uncovered no fewer than 75,296 illegal stills. Since then, sales of vodka, profits to the state and the number of chronic alcoholics have all grown right along with the population. The Kremlin does not publish official statistics, but one count of Soviet souses in 1965 put the number of heavy drinkers...