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...handled like nothing more than a log. One Russian sat on the defector's head and kept punching him for the entire ride. Once we arrived alongside the Russian ship, they threw the defector from aft to amidships, and threw him into a net lowered from the Russian vessel...
This time the President of Guinea seemed to have a legitimate beef. The U.N.'s own man in Conakry, Guinea's capital, told of seeing men disembarking from four unmarked vessels-among them an LST and a 5,000-ton cargo vessel. Heading for shore in small boats, the invaders came under heavy fire. Eyewitnesses later estimated the force at 350 men wearing Guinean army uniforms without emblems. Most of the invaders were black, but there were some whites as well...
Expanding Brainpower. Carefully consulting with community groups to determine local needs, Bowker pushed C.U.N.Y. into offering a host of services for the city, including research in welfare problems and the oceanographic vessel Atlantic Twin, which studies pollution in New York harbor. C.U.N.Y. now trains teachers' aides and paraprofessional nurses. It retrains retired cops and firemen to fill critical shortages in nursing, teaches city planning to neighborhood leaders and runs eleven centers for teaching thousands of jobless adults such skills as how to repair air conditioners and mold plastics...
...permits the Secretary of Defense to label as a defense facility "any plant, factory, industry, public utility, mine, laboratory, educational institution, research organization, railroad, airport, pier, waterfront installation, canal, dam, bridge, highway, vessel, aircraft, vehicle, or pipenne" from which suspected personnel may be barred or removed...
...world knew that this country would go any place in the world to get back any citizen of ours." Richard Nixon argued during the 1968 campaign: "When respect for the United States falls so low that a fourth-rate military power like North Korea will seize an American naval vessel on the high seas, it is time for new leadership." Last week Nixon was involved in an operation more intricate and hazardous than political campaigning...