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Bloody Scuffle. From Danang to the Mekong Delta patience was growing thin last week on both sides. Taking the initiative, some 3,000 South Vietnamese marines slogged through 38 slimy canals south of Saigon batting away leeches even as they caught slugs from Communist snipers. The toll was light-18 Viet Cong killed-but it was the first government offensive since December in the delta, and U.S. advisers hoped it would encourage the government troops to undertake bigger and more effective pushes not only in the delta, but throughout the country...
...week's end the country's death toll was approaching 300. Some 18,000 people were homeless, and the total damage was estimated at between $50 million and $100 million. With his ministers, Frei mapped out relief and reconstruction programs, ordered an inquiry to determine whether the mining company or government inspectors were guilty of negligence in permitting the miners to live at the base of the El Cobre...
...scandalous Smyrna massacre of 1922, in which 100,000 Greeks and Armenians were allegedly consumed in a conflagration lit by the victorious Turks, is minimized by Kinross, who accepts the U.S. State Department's conclusions: the death toll was about 2,000, and the fire was started by accident...
...repeal, Bishop Robert L. DeWitt of Pennsylvania said: "Our church, like every other church, has said over and over again that discrimination, condescension and segregation are evil and of the devil. The Delta Ministry is located in one diocese. But those school bells, those courthouse bells, those church bells toll for us all." Chairman of the Delta Ministry, Paul Moore, suffragan bishop of Washington, was even more impassioned: "God is working through this movement. I've never sensed the Holy Spirit as I did in Mississippi...
...Cabinet meeting, non-Hindi ministers backed the demand of Food Minister Chidambaram Subramaniam that English also be given statutory recognition as an official language. When they were voted down, Subramaniam and another minister resigned, shaking confidence in Shastri's leadership. As the death toll in the riots rose to 60, Shastri made a nationwide broadcast appealing for law and order. Though he did not promise to restore English to parity with Hindi, he did assure the nation that jobs and opportunities for advancement were in no way endangered by Hindi's becoming the official language...