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...Still, if the Russians want to heighten tensions in the city again, they got the perfect pretext at week's end. A rightist sniper, who left behind handbills charging that Brandt was abandoning West Berlin, seriously wounded a Soviet sentry guarding the Russian war memorial in the British sector of the city...
...also seemed to be moving toward conclusion after ten days of savage fighting. A truce team of officers from six other Arab nations arrived to supervise a cease-fire under the terms of a 14-point agreement negotiated earlier in Cairo. There was still sporadic fighting in the northern sector of Jordan, however, and 20 people were killed in an army-guerrilla clash...
...bill, with its widespread implications for the industrial sector, could also be used to break strikes against particularly vital industries, he added...
Backward in virtually every industrial sector except the military, Russia's growth of industrial productivity and rate of return from investments in the past decade have sharply declined. In the race to achieve nuclear parity with the U.S. and to develop anything like an adequate production of consumer goods, the U.S.S.R. has spread its resources too thin. Much of Russia's tremendous natural resources in gas, oil and essential ores remain untapped because they lie in remote areas, which would require vast capital investment and an advanced technology to exploit them...
TEAR GAS, like the Holy Spirit, moves in mysterious ways. Riot police passed the choking gas throughout the Common sector of West Cambridge Wednesday night; thin clouds of poison floated up Massachusetts Avenue. One unsuspecting summer school student almost started speaking in tongues when he attempted to cross the untrafficked thoroughfare: abruptly, he stopped, whirled about, doubled over momentarily, then retreated in a crouched position while violently rubbing his eyes...