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...Arthur D. Little spokesman said that NASA has not indicated an interest in the swamp tract, which adjoins the company's plant. He blamed "some wishful citizens in West Cambridge" for the "unfounded rumor" that NASA was considering the site...
...Syria are hard to take seriously: St. Maron, who spent eleven years in a hollowed-out tree trunk; St. Acepsimas, who wore so many chains he had to crawl on all fours; Macarius the Younger, who felt so guilty about swatting an insect that he sat naked in a swamp for six months until mosquito bites made him look like a leper...
Offered a rare opportunity to wipe out the Communist Viet Cong's crack 514th Battalion, some 2,000 U.S.-supported government troops last week trapped 500 of the enemy in a swamp ringed with coconut and banana groves, moved in for the kill. But a single Viet Cong platoon managed to hold off a timid government battalion for five hours. Other government troops failed to contact the enemy before dark. Instead of slipping away in the night as usual, the Viet Cong blasted right through the government lines and escaped, killing 22 government soldiers, wounding...
Safe Conduct. During the past four months, Ne Win has desperately tried to make peace with Burma's assorted rebels. He guaranteed safe conduct for political and tribal leaders from and to their swamp and jungle hideouts. Results were discouraging. Ne Win complained that the rebels-particularly the Communists-only wanted to buy time in which to regroup, rearm and prepare new offensives. He broke off the talks, let the leaders return to their jungle camps and then began a police roundup of 1,400 leftists of all shades...
...ground that now holds a full third of the city's population, is valued at upwards of $280 million. Most valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with foul-smelling flotsam and surrounded by 1,000 acres of swamp. Dillingham's men slashed a two-mile canal through the marshes, and drained the area. It is now called Waikiki Beach...