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...Unfortunately, much of the feeling is anti-American and thus anti-Marcos, since he is openly on the U.S. side. Many Filipinos complain that he should steer a more neutral course. His rivals in Congress, for example, are badgering him for sending two battalions of engineers to Viet Nam, threaten to force him to recall them. To show his independence, Marcos has publicly demanded the return of the U.S. Navy's Sangley Point Air Station to Philippine control. Though Washington would like to make Marcos look good, it is not yet willing to go that...
...Middle East has undergone so many Arab-Israeli alarums since Israel became a state 19 years ago that even the antagonists often find it difficult to take one another seriously. They huff and they puff, they bluster and threaten, they move troops around like toy soldiers, but-with the single tragic exception of the war over Suez in 1956 -their bravado has rarely amounted to more than local skirmishes. Last week the area once more seemed on the brink of disaster-and this time the huffing and puffing was more serious. In the closest that Israel and the Arab countries...
...reference than downtown bureaucrats. The Ranger's slogan--"We the people of Blackstone, in what we do we do the best"--evokes the following comment from a local youth officer: "Their slogan makes sense. What they do best is shoot, stab, fight, intimidate, extort money from businesses, and threaten little kids into paying them dues." Bullets do not discriminate, and when the policeman puts his life in dangers every day he has little use for the "sociological nonsense" taught at school...
...mile may be the top event of the day. Junior Jim Baker coasted to victory in 4:11 last week and could go faster today, in the freshman mile yardling superstars Keith Colburn and Royce Shaw appear ready to uncork sub--4:10's. Dartmouth is not expected to threaten in either race...
...army uniform?with decks of medals?that he wears on formal occasions. In turn, the top echelons of the army become restive whenever the King's prerogatives come under attack. Men of position who are a firm part of the Greek Establishment, they know that attacks on the monarchy threaten the system that grants them their privileges. Thus they were even willing to act against the King's will while protesting that they only sought to protect the monarchy...