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...unit, made up mostly of Yugoslav soldiers and Cana dian airmen, was far too small to police the vast, empty Yemen frontier, and from the start it was plagued by bad breaks and hostility from local authori ties. The team's first commander. Swedish Major General Carl von Horn, had hardly set up headquarters in the mud-walled capital of San'a when his horse, being led down a dusty street, kicked a Yemeni government official, resulting in the arrest of both groom and horse. U.N. planes are regularly fired on (none has been downed...
Tuesday, August 27 Focus on America (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "To the Moon and Beyond . . ." a discussion by Dr. Wernher von Braun of the U.S. space effort...
...last count, there were 72 princes and princesses of Liechtenstein, which is eleven more highnesses than there are square miles in the minuscule principality. Luckily for the postal system, only a dozen Von und zu Liechtensteins actually live in Liechtenstein. Indeed, it was not until 1937 that a hereditary ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella...
Jackie Washington, the Silver Leaf Gospel Singers and Eric Von Schmidt head the bill for a folksing tonight in Sanders Theater at 8 p.m. The proceeds of the event, sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Liberal Union, will be donated to the Greater Boston Committee for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
...von Munchhausen...