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...watch over the Salzburg sessions. More than 2,200 Austrian police and security men were mobilized, to add to the small armies of plainclothesmen that Ford and Sadat were bringing. Armored cars and armed soldiers ringed Salzburg's airport, and detecting devices were strung around the airport to ward off intruders...
...change practically everything. By 1980 oil royalties and taxes are expected to hit $1 billion a year or twice as much as the state's current budget. Most important, the pipeline will give Alaska a chance, at long last, to escape from its status as an underdeveloped, impecunious ward of the Federal Government. The state's optimists predict that employment will double in five years...
...even this tragedy did not appease the authorities. Ivan Dejmal was "treated" for several weeks in a closed section of the Psychiatric Ward of the Military Hospital in Prague in conditions only marginally better than in prison. Then he was sent back to his unit. In less than a week, the secret police concocted a case for arresting him again. Dejmal's next trip led to the infamous Ruzyne prison in Prague, where he is held...
...black bus, its windows wire-meshed to ward off rocks and grenades, rolled through the gate into Tan Son Nhut Air base on the edge of Saigon. Special police and South Vietnamese air force guards?ordinarily sticklers for formality?barely glanced up as they waved the vehicle on. Among the mixed load of American and Vietnamese passengers was Howard Hagen, an aircraft technician from Odessa, Texas, and more recently from Danang, South Viet Nam. "I just wish it hadn't turned out this way," said Hagen. "I'm leaving with a sad heart...
...Elissa Ward Johnson Columbia...