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...offensive and the tactical failure of the 37-day bombing pause have apparently led the Administration to intensify its determination not "to reward the aggressors." The first point of Tuesday's Declaration of Honolulu states: "We must defeat the Viet Cong and those illegally fighting with them on our soil." On Monday, President Johnson said that "strength is the only language that the Communists understand," and that "it is vitally important to every American family that we stop the Communists in South Vietnam...
...extensive search was one of four hydrogen bombs-each, if detonated, capable of wiping out a city-that fell from a U.S. Air Force B-52 when it collided with a refueling tanker over Spain's coast on Jan. 17. Three of the bombs landed on Spanish soil and were readily recovered. The fourth fell into the sea just short of Almeria. Fishermen quickly rescued the bomber's four survivors but not the bomb. Some 2,000 American servicemen from Spanish bases undertook the search. To be sure, none of the deadly, multimegaton nuclear-bomb cases was armed...
Last week Kentucky's legislature came to the rescue of the mountaineers. By an overwhelming vote, it adopted a law placing stiff controls on the strip miners. The law becomes effective in June, requires the companies to dump stripped soil in places where it cannot slide down exposed mountainsides. After the coal has been extracted, the companies must refill their gouges in the earth, terrace and replant their access cuts and, under certain conditions, regrade the slope to its original contour. Kentucky thereby became the seventh state to impose similar controls on strip coal mining. The others: West Virginia...
...folk themes, mostly), and Director Daniel Mann brings on the folks: Peter Finch, whose kibbutz is a hotbed of nationalist fervor; Jack Hawkins, as a British major who enforces the rules with leathery compassion; and a full quota of illegal immigrants who wade ashore and scoop up handfuls of soil...
Hurt worst were the favelas, the shantytowns that house one-quarter of Rio's 4,000,000 inhabitants. Many of the favelas cling precariously to steep hills. As the rains loosened the soil, the shacks slid dizzily down. Many favela dwellers escaped; others failed to get out soon enough. Slum dwellers in the low-lying northern suburb fared little better: the entire area was flooded...