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Sanh went on special alert to mark an ominous anniversary: the 14th year to the day since General Vo Nguyen Giap's initial assault on the French bastion of Dienbienphu. But the day came and went without any North Vietnamese attempt to celebrate with all-out fireworks...
Country Joe and the Fish live in a kind of superworld--a turned-on bastion of people together and peace and independence. "The time has come for us to create a world where nobody strongarms us," Joe MacDonald, the group's lead singer and spokesman, said last Friday night at a dirty, overprcied little dump in Boston called the Psychedelic Supermarket...
...Communists kept up their deadly tattoo of rocket and mortar attacks on allied bases and towns, inflicting "moderate" damage on the Danang airstrip in one attack and for the first time dropping shells into the center of Cam Ranh Bay, the U.S. base long considered the most impregnable bastion in Viet Nam and twice chosen for Viet Nam touch downs by Lyndon Johnson. The North Vietnamese also kept up their artillery pressure on the Marine garrison at Khe Sanh. One shell hit a troop-carrying C-123 circling to land; all 49 on board were killed when the plane crashed...
President--Deborah Batts '69, Kay Tolbert '69; V.P. Treasurer--Mary Goethals '69, Jill Pineus '69; Secretary Nominating Chairman--Susan Denker '70, Linda Pierce '71; NSA Delegates (2)--Ann Bastion '70, Nancy Lipton '69, Ellen Messer '70; College Council Representatives (2)--Phyllis Joachim '69, Judith Norsigian '70, Judith Smith '70, Sandra Walker...
Attacking the Symptoms. Nevertheless, the dollar's increasing exposure as the bastion of international monetary arrangements gave the President little choice but drastic action. Again and again since 1961, the Administration has promised that the dollar-weakening payments gap would be closed or greatly narrowed. Tinkering and tightening toward that end, the Government put a 15% tax on purchases of foreign securities by its own citizens, cut duty-free allowances on tourist purchases abroad, and finally imposed the "voluntary" curbs on bank loans and corporate investing. Balance, however, remained elusive and the cumulative deficit, after losses...