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...bolster South Viet Nam's defenses there, President Nguyen Van Thieu last week replaced two top military commanders in the Delta. The North, determined to discredit President Nixon's Vietnamization plan, has ordered two full regiments and possibly parts of three others into the area to confront Saigon's forces. The result has indeed posed a problem for Vietnamization- but for Hanoi's brand as well as Washington...
...murder the infant heir. In her search for a sanctuary where she can hide the boy and await the return of her lover from the imperial army, she meets with nothing but greed and hostility from the frightened peasants and rapacious lust from the soldiers. Her efforts to confront a culture of selfish barbarism with some compassion and decency only estrange her from her lover and mark her as a doomed woman in the eyes of the peasants. The act culminates in a surrealistic, semi-improvised dream sequence, where the characters, each physicalizing his own brand of hatred, converge...
...three obstreperous spectators carried from the courtroom last week bit a bailiff's hand, but for the most part even the antic outbursts have deflated. Some time in the next couple of months the jurors will have to sort through the tedium and the hijinks to confront one crucial question: whether they believe the prosecution testimony of undercover agents who swore that there had indeed been a conspiracy to incite riots. The verdict will depend far more on that than on any witnesses for the defense, real or technical...
...especially anger the white Middle. During 1969, job militants at construction sites in Pittsburgh came up against phalanxes of hard-hatted white workers determined to prove that they were capable of counterviolence. "The threats strike me as blackmail," says Al Braselton, an Atlanta advertising man. "Negroes have got to confront the white community strongly, but it had better not be with shotguns, because we've got a lot more of them than
...Madonna for the top spot," reports Stephen Shannon, head of the National Association of Greeting Card Publishers. The topical messages are not always gentle. For $1, the Black Panthers offer a selection of twelve different greetings. One card portrays a pig-faced white Santa emerging from a chimney to confront a less-than-loving reception committee: a black father toting a carbine and his little boy preparing to bash St. Nick with a small Christmas tree. The trend is not only American. In Beirut the anti-Israel terrorists of Al-Fatah are selling cards with a drawing of innocent-looking...