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...early February, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos in order to cut off an anticipated North Vietnamese offensive along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. On February 10, Harvard students participate in protests coordinated with Boston and Northeastern Universities. Five thousand demonstrators march from their respective college campuses to Boston Common, where they listen to speeches by a local women's anti-war group...
...what I don't think one person in a thousand would do," Sagan says...
...when the Democrats walk triumphantly back into the ruling Legco -- where they were turfed out last July -- they'll find themselves with a toothless 13 percent of the seats. Thanks to Beijing's system of "functional" constituencies, two-thirds of the assembly was chosen by fewer than a hundred thousand "professional" voters...
...stickler for ritual and dragged Feingold up onto a Forest Hills roof at night so that he could recite in secret. But the then-apprentice has no regrets. He remains awed that "a man could walk up to another man and say, 'I need a thousand dollars to pay my rent,' and the brother would give him a check and say, 'Give it back when you have it.'" He still believes in the group's pledge to "take good men and make them better." He eventually joined the Shriners, the fez-headed Masonic subgroup with a philanthropic specialty and more...
...More importantly, the students aren't happy. "Bring down Habibie! Put Suharto on trial!" chanted a 1,500-strong youth group in the first major protest since Suharto's resignation. Over a thousand Habibie supporters also took to the streets Friday -- which suggests that the former veep must be doing something right. But half an endorsement isn't good enough, considering the economic tidal wave that's about to hit Habibie's shores. "Because he's not going to have support from across the board," says McCarthy, "it's hard to see how he's going to weather that." Habibie...