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...returns again to the riverbank. With their hefty hoes, the villagers dug 10 ft. down and 20 ft. wide. The earth, lifted up in round bamboo baskets, became a wall, 20 ft. wide at the base, 4 ft. at the top. The sides are porcupined with thousands of closely sown bamboo slivers sharpened to a needle point. Atop the wall the villagers strung two strands of barbed wire on steel stanchions. Then the moat was filled with water lifted from the river by paddle-wheel scoop, and last week water lilies floated above the mantrap of bamboo spikes...
From this tiny seed, sown a full 13 years before Hitler's accession, sprang the most perverted, rapacious and successful propaganda apparatus the world had ever known. By 1936, after just three years in power, the Nazi party owned two-thirds of all German news circulation outright and tightly controlled the rest. Not a line was printed without official approval, not an editor escaped the role of Nazi stooge. How this happened-and, more significantly, how easily it happened-is told in The Captive Press in the Third Reich (Princeton University Press; $6.50), by Oron J. Hale, 61, chairman...
...South Vietnamese, most of them in their bunks, wounded a U.S. lieutenant, beheaded a Vietnamese cook. A half-mile away, 200 government soldiers at another post heard the battle, but, fearing ambush, dared not go to the rescue (next morning the route they would have taken was found sown with Red mines). After 40 minutes, the Communists withdrew, carrying off enough weapons to arm one of their battalions, plus four captured American advisers.* Because it took Saigon's new revolutionary regime more than a day to supply enough troops for a helicopter-borne counterassault, most of the Reds escaped...
...seeds of cultural change have been sown; Harvard can contribute creatively to cultural change or regress to a system of strict sex-segregation and no parietals. John Hartman...
...East German village of Mupperg are ideal for a Sunday stroll but disfigured by a fearsome scar-the 500-yd.-wide death strip sealing off East from West. Guarded by Grepos (Communist border police) with orders to shoot anything that moves, the no man's land is sown with mines and foot traps, every one tightly laced with three rows of barbed wire...