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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nationalists in South Yemen have vowed to oust the sheiks, and the Egyptians, Saudi Arabians, Iraqis and Iranians are also out to extend their influence in the Gulf. Result: the Trucial sheiks are scurrying around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging the federation to include the five smaller states-Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm al Qaiwain and Ras al Khaimah...
...citizens of Atlanta, which boasts 80 of the billboards, worry that right-wingers were involved. In Miami, the posters are thought to be the handiwork of an eccentric millionaire; in Lancaster, Ohio, they are signed by the Lancaster Mothers' Association. Alas, though many mothers feel desperate enough to start such a campaign, a Lancaster Mothers' Association does not exist...
...Marine battalion commander at Camp Pendleton, Calif., has posted wall-size copies in his unit's barracks "as an inspiration to our troops," and residents of Shreveport, La., are thinking of having bumper stickers made up along similar lines. As for Donnelly, it is planning to start pasting them on its own billboards this week, and the agency's John Donnelly Jr. knows exactly where he wants the first one to go: Harvard Square...
Thesis Turned Boole. Other law schools have also encouraged students to dig into the issues raised by Viet Nam. Last week a student-faculty committee at U.C.L.A. Law School decided to try to start a Viet Nam-and-the-law course in the fall. If approved by the faculty, it will be given for credit. New York University Law School started a seminar on the subject for third-year men this semester. Students have also been probing Viet Nam on their own. The most extensive effort so far is a new book, Law and Viet Nam, by two 1967 Yale...
Almost from the start, the U.S. effort to build a supersonic jet transport has been buffeted by technical, financial and political turbulence. The resulting delays have already set back development of the plane by at least a year. Last week the Johnson Administration let it be known that the SST faces a further slowdown, which will keep it from entering airline service at least until 1976 or '77, instead of 1974, as originally planned...