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...Phuoc Thanh woke to the bludgeoning explosion of a plastic bomb that ripped away a corner of the concrete administration building. As the provincial chief and two of his aides rushed to the street, they were shot down. Over the rampart swarmed 600 Viet Cong Communist guerrillas brandishing rifles and machetes. Most of the town's 50 Civil Guards were machine-gunned as they slept. A company of 70 U.S.-trained Vietnamese Rangers retreated to the jungle, leaving the town to its fate. Their commander explained later that he intended to ambush the guerrillas as they withdrew...
Finally, last winter, the State Department woke up. Into action went Philip H. Coombs, former Ford Foundation economist and the new Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Coombs started by withdrawing a new $9,600,000 budget request for the center, then got the regents to call in some able pulse takers, including Presidents Clark Kerr of the University of California and John Gardner of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Their advice: make the center semi-autonomous and give it a chancellor ranking with President Snyder; concentrate on technical graduate studies in the university...
...that Hook has any use for such traditional faith. He regards all varieties of organized religion as philosophically unsound and politically dangerous. To him, religious doctrines "constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability" when tested on the scale of logic. Even if a naturalist woke up in the presence of God, and were thus proven wrong, says Hook, the theory he held while on earth would still have been more reasonable than the supernaturalist who is "unreasonable, even if it turns out he is right...
...loner who is happy with rucksack and sleeping bag. Although the islanders are conservative enough to be repelled by the sight of women in shorts or slacks, they are also warm and carefree. One night recently, two American women who had bedded down in sleeping bags in a park, woke suddenly to find the young men of the village singing gaily and dancing around them in a circle. After a few laughs, they wandered away to let the visitors finish their sleep...
...senses from the recent White Paper that Castro went to bed one night a social democrat, and woke up a Communist. It is even hinted that this man--who less than a year ago told 200,000 followers that "Communism kills man by wiping out his freedom"--was trying to subvert his country from the outset. Indeed the only possibility disregarded is that at every stage in Cuba's recent development, the Castro government was offered no alternative to the one supplied by the Left...