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...shoes, Democrat-Come-Lately John Lindsay last week stepped gingerly into the national political arena. In his first major foray outside New York City since he switched parties, Lindsay visited Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, sampling reaction and sending up trial balloons for a presidential campaign. The three-day junket removed any doubts that New York's mayor is aiming for the White House...
...case generated waves from Moscow to Manhattan. As soon as Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev returned to the Soviet capital from his three-day visit to Yugoslavia, he took the extraordinary step of convening an emergency meeting of the 15-man Politburo right on the premises of Vnukovo Airport. The high-level conference, which forced a 24-hour delay of a state dinner in honor of India's visiting Premier Indira Gandhi, might have dealt with the still-mysterious goings-on in China. But it might also have dealt with the difficult problem of how the Kremlin should react...
This theme of "impersonal warfare" was stressed throughout the first day of hearings. Eric Herter, VVAW coordinator for the three-day investigation, said in his opening remarks that "We have been participants in the new forms of war which are to replace the unpopular struggle of infantry patrol against guerilla band. Replace it with a greater atrocity than a hundred My Lais--the systematic destruction of thousands of innocent persons, of entire cultures by an automated electronic and mechanical death machine whose killing will be one-sided, unseen, and universal...
...possibly a bit ominous. For nearly a quarter of a century the Yugoslavs more often than not have stood on the other side of the barricade, anxiously eyeing their big Communist neighbor whose tutelage they have rejected since 1948. Thus last week as Brezhnev arrived in Belgrade for a three-day visit, the Yugoslavs were anxious to get a firsthand impression of his attitude and intentions toward their country. They knew that their nonaligned status and recent flirtations with China were major irritants to the Russians...
With a swiftness born of practice, the Andean capital of La Paz returned to normal last week after a bloody three-day coup d'état that left 110 dead and 600 wounded. Little evidence remained of the bitter fighting, except for the assault vehicles guarding La Paz University, where students loyal to deposed President Juan José Torres holed up in a futile battle that ended when seven were killed. Torres himself went the way of many of his predecessors: he flew off to exile in Peru...