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...Ozama River ?and into another volley of rebel fire. Three hours passed and the casualty toll mounted to 20 wounded before the U.S. forces could declare their objectives secured: the paratroopers to clear the approaches to the Duarte Bridge into Santo Domingo, the marines to carve a 3.5-sq.-mi. "international zone" out of the city as a refuge for U.S. nationals and anyone else who hoped to remain alive in a city gone berserk in the bloodiest civil war in recent Latin American history...
Through war, wile and treaty, France managed to get possession of the 30,000-sq.-mi. island toward the end of the 18th century. Concentrating on the western third of the mountainous land, the French brought in thousands of colonists, and with them came vast numbers of Negro slaves from Africa. The French called their Caribbean possession Saint Domingue, termed it the "Queen of the Antilles." So it was. In the 1780s, its foreign trade approached $140 million a year, with vast profits from sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and indigo flowing back home. Before long, 40,000 whites were lording...
Pakistan calls the 8,000-sq.-mi. area an inland sea (and indeed during the monsoon season most of it is blanketed with four feet of water from the Arabian Sea), hence feels the boundary should be drawn halfway through the Rann. Shastri last week invoked etymology to prove that the Rann is not a sea but a swamp, deriving as it does from the Sanskrit irinam, meaning "salty marsh." Therefore, the Indian Prime Minister argued, the boundary must remain as drawn by the British way back...
...Morio Shigematsu, 25: the 69th Boston Marathon, pit-patting over the grueling 26-mi. 385-yd. course in 2 hrs. 16 min. 33 sec. to clip a full 2 min. off the record set two years ago by Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche; at Boston. Shigematsu led a parade of his countrymen across the line; Japanese took second, third, fifth and sixth places as well. Vandendriessche wound up fourth; first U.S. runner to finish was Ralph Buschmann in seventh place...
...White House last week came the first state visitor since President Johnson's inauguration. He was little (5 ft. 6 in.) Maurice Yameogo, President of the little (105,900 sq. mi.), new nation of Upper Volta. Yameogo, 43, came to Washington a fan of Abraham Lincoln; he left a fan of Lyndon Baines Johnson...