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Louise A. Sarezky, who withdrew from the Harvard Summer School on July 12, surrendered herself to the Brookline police last Tuesday on charges of "selling and delivering narcotic drugs...
...primary base and target in the North. The day before the riots started, the two men conferred about housing, job opportunities, police brutality and other issues. They got nowhere. Daley later charged that workers on King's staff were in large measure responsible for the violence. (Subsequently he withdrew the accusation.) At week's end the mayor belatedly announced that he would appoint a citizens committee to scrutinize police procedures, especially in the force's dealings with minorities. He also promised to use federal funds for additional swimming pools and playground facilities for the Negroes. And Daley...
France "can do so all the better since it withdrew its administration and military forces from Indo-China twelve years ago," he intoned, "thus leaving North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos complete self-determination." Thus he conveniently ignored the fact that France's withdrawal was the result of military defeat, and went on to charge that "the United States felt obliged to engage progressively its political authority and its arms wherever France withdrew...
Usually, a military change of command is accompanied by the most poignant pomp and circumstance. Boot heels click and swords flash in the sun; hands sweep neatly to helmet brims and pennants slowly change place on flagstaffs. Last week, as France withdrew from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the change of command was far from melodramatic. French General Glean Crepin, commander of the Allied Forces in Central Europe, demanded a private ceremony in the inner courtyard of the Château de Fontainebleau. There, with the quietest of diplomatic drumrolls, he relinquished control of the 60 divisions in NATO...
...shadows with their guns to ambush Viet Cong intruders. Last March a small Viet Cong propaganda team came, and nearly every villager went to his assigned post. The Reds asked who the leaders were. No one would talk to them, and the baffled and frustrated V.C. organizers withdrew. So, too, has the pacification team, its mission accomplished, with Tau Nghia now a village thriving, alive and ready to kick hard at any Communist attempt to reinfiltrate...