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...antiaircraft batteries in firing position. In the first hours of the assault, one ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) airborne unit set down right on top of a North Vietnamese regimental base area. The North Vietnamese were so flabbergasted that they put up only token resistance and withdrew hastily, leaving heavy casualties behind...
...consider the university's reaction to the trial, but did not personally endorse the moratorium concept, contending that a university should remain neutral on political issues. Black faculty members thereupon got together and protested Brewster's action as "an evasion of responsibility." Black members of the committee withdrew, claiming that they were being used "as buffers to neutralize a dangerous and immediate situation." Some 1,500 students attended a "teach-in" at which New Haven Panther Leader Doug Miranda urged them: "Take your power and use it to move the institution-that Panther and that Bulldog are going...
...national student strike affected two important athletic events over the weekend. Both Army and Navy withdrew from the Heptagonal Track Championships because authorities at West Point and Annapolis agreed that a protest statement prepared by the eight other colleges for delivery during the meet would make their participation "inappropriate...
Federal troops and National Guardsmen withdrew yesterday from their positions in and around New Haven, and organizers of the demonstrators there blamed the troops for the small attendance at the rally...
...apart from the other prisoners, and in January the State Attorney's office paid traveling expenses so that his brother, a police sergeant in Dade County, Fla., could come and talk to him. Shortly after his brother's visit, Kimbro changed his plea to guilty. His lawyer subsequently withdrew from the case after filing a motion which claimed Kimbro's constitutional rights had been violated because the interview with his brother had taken place with on this lawyer's permission or knowledge...