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...effort to combat the local parking shortage, caused partly by University affiliates using up metered spaces, the City of Cambridge this week doubled parking meter fines in Harvard Square, on the order of the city Traffic and Parking Department...
...rise has put area residents on the defensive. About 500 local homeowners and renters have formed a neighborhood watch group to combat the Square's crime problem...
...horror was of such magnitude that participants -- civilians as much as soldiers -- survived it only by reliance on euphemism and illusions: our lads were all brave heroes, for example, while theirs were sadistic thugs. Fussell has a sharp eye for the bawdry and the Catch-22 absurdities of combat. But hard to find in his barrages of withering contempt is much sense that this war, for all the bumbling incompetence of its captains, nonetheless had a just cause...
...film opens as a group of American combat soldiers stand before a C-130 transport plane ready to carry them to the Vietnamese front. A voice from above the plane perhaps that of their sergeant tells them that they are the best soldiers that America has to offer and that they are about to go out and teach a bunch of "communist gooks" to respect America...
...appreciated the aid. Another growing concern for Colombia is the presence of U.S. military advisers, considered an international embarrassment and a potential threat to the nation's sovereignty. Washington announced plans to expand the military role of U.S. advisers training local antinarcotics teams, though soldiers would be banned from combat. The last thing Colombians want, says presidential contender Ernest Samper, is to "turn Colombia into a Viet Nam against drugs...