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Striking with stunning speed and surprise, some 200,000 soldiers of the five Warsaw Pact countries punched across the Czechoslovak border to snuff out the eight-month-old experiment by Alexander Dubcek's regime in humanizing Communism. Russian and East German units smashed southward from East Germany. Forces thrusting from...
...Slovakia last week. The few Russian units that did leave marched straight to Poland, where they pitched their tents hard by Czechoslovakia's border. Soviet tanks and at least 1,000 other military vehicles suddenly began rolling over the roads in East Germany, most of them headed southward toward the Czechoslovak border. The Kremlin announced a two-week series of maneuvers by supply and repair units of the Red army from Riga on the Baltic to Odessa on the Black Sea and, of course, along the frontier with Slovakia. The Russians also launched nationwide antiair craft exercises under...
...Penn made the journey aboard an Amtrak, on which the teams were locked in a train car the entire trip. As one of the Eli swimmers asked, "Do you know what that's like when you have to go to the bathroom?" And Dartmouth? The Big Green bused southward on the weekend the annual Winter Carnival was being staged in Hanover, an event made even more depressing when, in the words of coach Susan Lutkus, "It took us as long to get from the bus station to the pool as it had from Hanover to Boston." Make that the thrill...
Measures are being taken to stop the spreading bees, but there is considerable doubt whether they can be halted before they spread farther southward through Argentina and northward through Colombia, Central America Mexico and into the U.S. After the African bees became a menace, Brazil's worried Ministry of Agriculture ordered that all African bees be exterminated, the ruling was never enforced Moreover,it failed to provide for indemnification of beekeepers. Impressed by improved honey yields, the beekeepers did nothing, and the Africans overwhelmed the relatively peaceful Italian and German bees that previously had Brazil to themselves. Spreading...
From the battlefields along the Demilitarized Zone to the fearful capital of Saigon and southward, the allies last week were nearly everywhere on the military and political defensive, waiting uncertainly for the Communists' next blow and by no means confident that it could be wholly blunted. A full 25 days after the Communists first launched their general offensive, South Viet Nam was still a country taut with terror and riven by fire. In Hué, South Vietnamese and U.S. Marines were still engaged in the most desperate fighting of the war to drive the last of the North Vietnamese...