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...crowd and had a clear exit route back to their assembly point. Even at the time of firing, a number of Guardsmen were so unconcerned that they turned their backs on the students. The closest slain student was nearly the length of a football field away from the riflemen who killed...
...Hussein last week angrily complained that his government was infiltrated by guerrillas, and that even his cook and chauffeur turned out to be terrorists. Newsmen who had been trapped in the Jordan Intercontinental Hotel (see THE PRESS) told of seeing Bedouins shooting a wounded fedai to death. Both army riflemen and fedayeen snipers fired on ambulances, and on one occasion guerrillas stole two Red Cross vehicles and converted them into ammunition carriers. The fedayeen lobbed mortars at Amman airport as planes landed to evacuate wounded Jordanians as well as U.S. and British women and children...
...reporting for the story was also done by Washington-based John Stacks. Expertise was contributed by Anchorage Reporter Joe Rychetnik, a Chicago-born newsman who left Oregon for Alaska eleven years ago after his big-game haunts were invaded by too many wild-shooting, heavy-drinking riflemen. Now he finds himself crowded again and guesses he will "either have to move out into the bush or get used to people-there are just too many." New York Correspondent Alan Anderson interviewed both U.S. and Canadian ecologists. The story was written by Philip Herrera, researched by Nancy Williams and edited...
...Atassi, to protest Damascus' support of the guerrilla raids. Atassi had closed the Syrian-Lebanese border, stranding more than 500 trucks along the 68-mile Beirut-Damascus highway, one of the Middle East's busiest trade routes. Ignoring Helou's protests, Syria -or the fedayeen-moved riflemen, armored cars and mortars to the Lebanese frontier. At week's end some troops were reported to have crossed the border and occupied a village four miles inside Lebanon. The Syrians have traditionally been better at rattling sabers than using them, however, and nobody expected a full-fledged invasion...
...Bridge in Saigon, dutifully fills in MACV Form 10. He no longer cringes when his buddies rib him about the re port and his peculiar command-a laudable sign of self-control. For MACV Form 10 is the Geese Reaction Report, and Schreiner's platoon includes 40-odd riflemen and a gaggle of six belligerent geese...