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Erik Wikstrom, who is coordinating a team from the Divinity School, said that the dance-a-thon "is a natu- ral thing for Divinity School students andfaculty to be involved...
...L.B.J. Administration, then offered him the plum of a foreign assignment. With London as his base, Rather soon found himself dodging shells on the India-Pakistan border, watching the beginnings of a civil war in Greece, staring at armed and edgy Red Chinese soldiers down the Natu La pass in the Himalayas. He hounded the home office for an assignment in Viet Nam and spent nearly a year there. A different kind of combat duty awaited him back in the U.S. He was punched in the stomach by one of Mayor Daley's security guards on the floor...
Since the Chinese invaded India through the passes in 1962, the border has been comparatively quiet. The most recent major firefight occurred last September. At such strategic spots as the 14,140-ft. Natu Pass, linking the Indian protectorate of Sikkim to Chinese-held Tibet, the two sides are literally at bayonet point, patrolling within sight and sound of each other on opposite sides of a single strand of wire. Asian-style politesse prevails in the low-key propaganda war at Natu Pass. Indian loudspeakers kick off daily with news and propaganda in Mandarin Chinese...
...most direct and serious provocation occurred in the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, whose defense and foreign policy are controlled by India. On Sikkim's border with China, Communist troops suddenly opened fire with machine guns and mortars on Indian soldiers laying wire at the 14,000-ft.-high Natu Pass. The Indians fired back, and for four days gunfire and cannonades echoed through the thin Himalayan air, causing numerous casualties on both sides. It was the worst Sino-Indian border incident since the Chinese invasion...
Snoopy, who upstages the rest of the company every time he is onscreen, wins first prize with his doghouse deco rations. Nice Guy Charlie Brown natu rally finishes last- he can't even find a decent Christmas tree. "You've been dumb before, Charlie Brown," snorts Lucy, "but this time you really...