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Fighting raged once again in Indochina last week, and troops surged into Cambodia's Parrot's Beak region, where American forces in 1970 had made their highly controversial incursion. This time, however, the foes were two Communist nations that had survived and triumphed over U.S. might. Viet Nam and Cambodia (which now calls itself Democratic Kampuchea) challenged each other not only with deadly gunfire but with blasts of bitter propaganda, while their sponsoring powers, the Soviet Union and China, watched uneasily from the sidelines...
...ring immediately if anyone else got in. "Those guys'll hit anything moving," the author was warned, "the timekeeper, if he got in there; a handyman sent in to check the ring posts; anybody. And as for a writer, those guys'd smack a writer on the beak just to see what would happen." Plimpton sparred without disaster at the Racquet Club and studied a boxing manual he found in the library there, dated 1807. In time. Brown took loudly to calling Plimpton a "tiger," an example of untruth in advertising...
...southern Viet Nam, the U Minh Forest, the Central Highlands and the area bordering Cambodia's Parrot's Beak, are proving as inhospitable to Hanoi's troops as they were to America's. Tattered groups of militant Hoa Hao Buddhists, disgruntled peasants and bitter former soldiers of the fallen Thieu regime in Saigon have established strongholds in these areas. Around Dalat, for instance, up to 2,000 veterans sporadically battle the forces of the new rulers. The fighting has been serious enough for circumspect Hanoi newspapers to admit that "veterans do not hesitate to open fire...
...Chicago last week for a strictly fun hockey match against the Blackhawks-all for the sake of the team's annual Christmas party. While 80 of the players' wives, children and friends looked on, the Hawks lost the match when Big Bird grabbed the puck in his beak and tossed it in for the winning goal. And how would the animals fare against the Philadelphia Flyers, the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Champions? "They'd have to take a lot more body contact," reflected Blackhawk Phil Russell. "Especially Big Bird...
...making a determined run at the leader. Suddenly Gourmet Belch stops dead in its tracks and Cannabis veers off unexplainably. From back in the pack Motown Missile, pride of the Israeli Rocket Racing Stables, surges down the stretch, takes the lead, and sprints home the winner-by a beak...