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...placid, Lilliputian Persian Gulf sheikdom of Sharjah was unexpectedly disturbed last week by the thud of hand grenades and the rattle of rifle fire. Former Sheik Saqr bin Sultan, deposed in 1965 in a peaceful coup, had returned from exile in Cairo. With two truckloads of Bedouins, he stormed Sharjah's blue-and-white palace in an attempt to overthrow his ruling cousin Sheik Khalid bin Mohammed. In a brief battle with tribesmen loyal to Khalid, Saqr was captured. But Sheik Khalid was trapped and murdered before he could be rescued...
...where Lindsay trial balloons were well received, and probably California, which the pros judge an excellent political climate for a Lindsay TV campaign. One advantage to Aurelio's reassignment is that Lindsay risks little. If response is poor, he can gracefully withdraw, rather than drop out with a thud à la Harris. The more likely probability is an all-out run for the nomination choreographed by Aurelio, who engineered Lindsay's third-party mayoralty victory in 1969. Once that kind of machinery is in motion, it will be difficult to turn...
Last week the crackle of machine-gun fire and the dull thud of mortars rent the still, dry air along the border. Rival communiqués were, as customary, completely contradictory. According to Damascus, a Jordanian armored unit raked a Syrian observation post with machine-gun fire; in retaliation, Syrian gunners destroyed five Jordanian tanks. According to Amman, an "unidentified force" started the action, and Jordan retaliated by destroying five Syrian tanks, a gun position, and an observation post. In any event, by week's end Syria had broken relations with Jordan, following similar action taken by Libya...
...sensational affair began quietly with the dull thud of the 486-page Sunday New York Times arriving on doorsteps and in newsrooms. A dry Page One headline?VIETNAM ARCHIVE: PENTAGON STUDY TRACES 3 DECADES OF GROWING U.S. INVOLVEMENT Was followed by six pages of deliberately low-key prose and column after gray column of official cables, memorandums and position papers. The mass of material seemed to repel readers and even other newsmen. Nearly a day went by before the networks and wire services took note. The first White House reaction was to refrain from comment so as not to give...
THEY HAVE built a stone wall around the ivory tower. The wall is thick. In the past, occasionally a stone would crash and crumble on the outer gates; inside, we would hear only a muffled thud. At times, a big rock was hurled, big enough to shake the walls, not big enough to topple them. We remember those times as Crises, and after they passed and the rocks lay in sandy ruin on the ground, we reinforced the walls...