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...Firefights and sniper fire are expected to continue. Do not travel on foot. All vehicles must have an armed escort." Flak-jacketed American MPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. Trigger-happy police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching checkpoints and barricades strung about the city. Tough ARVN marines and paratroopers blasted their way through narrow alleys in running gun battles with the Viet Cong, 700 to 1,000 of whom were believed still mingling with the city's population...
...wintry waters of the Sea of Japan, 26 miles off the inhospitable coastline of North Korea, the 906-ton U.S.S. Pueblo went routinely about her tasks as an electronic scavenger. She sampled the water around her with bottles strung from her sides, and listened for submarines below. She sniffed the skies above with the thickets of antennas that bristle from her superstructure, and scooped up every electronic signal for miles around with a formidable array of supersecret equipment...
Offering everything from garden tools to groceries to girdles at discount prices, the new complex will be the latest of 30 White Front stores that Interstate has strung through California. It will also be the showplace of a fast-growing nationwide retailing chain that now numbers 114 stores, including Topps stores through the East and Midwest and toy-selling Children's Supermart stores in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, as well as 31 conventional department stores in 12 states...
...Hassan al-Amri, the army commander. Al-Amri declared a 6 p.m. curfew, ordered civilians to form militia units "to defend the republic." In Liberation Square, a howling mob watched a firing squad execute six suspected Royalist infiltrators, then dragged their bodies to the gates of the city and strung them up on poles...
With a huge rush, 1000 demonstrators streaked across the North Parking Lot, where speeches were still going on. With three Vietcong flags in the lead, they raced up to a line of 20 soldiers and U.S. marshals and stopped. Then they strung themselves out over 300 yards, standing there jaw-to-jaw with the troops...