Word: americans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles was bound for a city that has been off-limits to U.S. flights since 1975: Phnom-Penh. On board were 82,000 lbs. of food and medicine and 134 lbs. of San Francisco Bureau Chief Gavin Scott. The airlift, "Operation California," was sponsored by ten American corporations and church groups. Scott, who was one of four journalists allowed to hitch a ride, thus became one of the few American newsmen in years to be given a firsthand look inside the capital of war-ravaged Cambodia. His report on that extraordinary two-day sojourn appears in this week...
...journey, "but in 20 years as a TIME correspondent, few stories have proved more riveting." Since the U.S. has no diplomatic relations with Cambodia, Operation California agents had to arrange their mission with the Cambodian embassy in Moscow. "Bona fides was eventually established with help from the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia," Scott explains, "but a green light came only four days before we took...
...itself pumping when the lead guitarist breaks his Sex Pistols cover and chants with his bass player, DESTROY-DESTROY-DESTROY and he disappears behind the drummer, who keeps a steady, low roll. The singer emerges from the other side of the drums wearing an Iranian flag shirt and American flag pants. There are 50 safety pins mending the rips in his shirt. They do a song called "Take Me Hostage," and at the end, at the height of a feedback, the bass player sets the singer's shirt on fire. The bass player takes the pillow out of the bass...
...cabs and the police all compete to take people home with them. All the way down the road, lined with happy and vicious people celebrating the end of a work week, making parodies of threats, laughing the serious. All the way to Holyoke Center, where a group of American students is staging a show...
Finally, ETS adopted the game-show competition format, capitalizing on the American public's love of sporting affairs...