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Dear Editor, ' I am forced to add to a headline in your last week’s paper.... “Ham To Manage Marsh Campaign,” and if the Democrats don’t pull together it will be a turkey. ' A Gibbons Supporter
Washington — Quemoy, the battered island outpost of Nationalist China, lies only 9,000 yards off the Communist-held mainland, the National Geographic Society says. Enemy positions are so close that the Nationalists and Beds can watch one another riding bicycles or patrolling beaches. Many dispossessed families on the 50-square-mile island live in caves.
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