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...Cairo, but were repulsed by riot police firing volleys of tear gas. Sadat's political response was equally firm. Late last week, he announced that he would show "no mercy" to Muslim groups involved in the strife and vowed to strip all powers from Pope Shenouda III, 117th Patriarch of the Coptic Church of Egypt...
United States warplanes waged air strikes against Cambodia yesterday for the 117th consecutive day since the bombing began in February...
Although the bombing in Cambodia--now in its 117th consecutive day--may be just as severe, it does not yet have the same immediate impact. Most people know little about the embattled country. Reporting from Cambodia is scanty and shoddy, the outlines of the political dispute there are hazy, and the revolutionary Khmer Rouge, to which many Harvard students would be attracted, is still a shadowy and elusive force...
...Laos, meanwhile, U.S. B-52 bombers and smaller tactical bombers pounded North Vietnamese supply trails for the 117th consecutive day. The U.S. bombing campaign, which is reported to be the heaviest and most sustained of the entire Indochina war, is intended to slow down the dry-season movement of supplies and reinforcements to Communist forces in South Vietnam and Cambodia...
...only son to become a Starfighter pilot. Last week, after a routine 75-minute flight over the North Sea, a Starfighter piloted by Lieut. Joachim von Hassel, 29, crashed into a forest and exploded in flames. Von Hassel became the 55th pilot to lose his life in the 117th Starfighter crash since...