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...home, the plight of Pueblo's crew was eloquently conveyed by a photo from North Korea of the ship's officers and crew parading with their hands up. Washington's impotence in a week-long waffling effort to obtain their release helped prompt a predictably irascible response from press, public and Congress. "A dastardly act of piracy!" cried Massachusetts Congressman William Bates, senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Bennett urged the U.S. to send "an armada steaming into Wonsan harbor, throw a tow rope around the Pueblo...
...rest of the petition, which the Committee will consider early next year, urges that a week-long reading period be instituted in May for second- and third-year students. Presently, the School's only reading period is for first-year students before Spring finals...
...JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Where Is Prejudice?" Twelve nice, reputedly unbiased college students of differing faiths and races are brought together for an exercise in venom during a week-long workshop. The catalyst fusing their experience turns out to be naked prejudice...
...devaluation of the pound was followed by the equally traumatic devaluation of Harold Wilson and his government. Crowds mounted a week-long vigil on the sidewalk opposite No. 10 Downing Street, some of them crying: "Get out, you silly nits." In most un-British fashion, eggs were hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan. A poll published by the Daily Mail reported that 54% of British voters thought that Wilson should resign, and that 56% believed that devaluation was the result of Labor's mismanagement. In the only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots...
...Tongans made certain that Tupou IV could keep up his strength. From all over the kingdom's 150 islands, they flocked in outrigger canoes and launches to the week-long ceremonies at the capital of Nuku'alofa, bringing baskets of mutton, lobsters, crabs and other delicacies for His Royal Highness. More than 3,000 pigs were roasted whole for the coronation-day dinner. Thirty huge turtles taken from pens outside the King's palace went into the royal soup. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii representing President Johnson, were among...