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...that rain does not dampen outdoor ceremonies, a bomoh is often designated to ward off showers. Government employees buy "holy water" from a medium to bring them job promotions. Malaysian Minister of Works Tun V.T. Sambanthan regularly consults Hindu priests to determine the best days to open new facilities. Cambodian Premier Lon Nol is said to have summoned a monk named Mam Prum Moni. Says a member of the National Assembly: "He is the most important man for General...
...photographer, Frosch chose the tough way to cover news. During the recent riots in Augusta, Ga., Frosch was the only reporter able to produce an eyewitness account of police killing a looter. He managed it by dodging black snipers' bullets half the night, police bullets the remainder. His Cambodian reporting was just as firsthand: he would listen to the military briefings, then set out to check them himself. Before Frosch's arrival in Cambodia, U.P.I, had suffered from embarrassing gaffes, even reporting the proclamation of the Cambodian Republic twice before it really happened, months later. With Frosch...
...afternoon last week Frosch and Sawada climbed into a car together and headed for Chambak, the Cambodian army's southernmost outpost. At about 5:30 that afternoon, Cambodian soldiers heard gunfire and set out to investigate. They found the blue car riddled with bullets and smashed against a tree. The next morning the bodies of Frosch and Sawada were found. They had been savagely beaten in the neck and head, then shot repeatedly in the chest. No bloodstains were found in the car, indicating the execution had been performed after the crash. It was a reminder that, in this...
...height of the Cambodian crisis-the morning of the march on Washington protesting it-President Nixon made a surprise 5 a. m. appearance at the Lincoln Memorial to chat with demonstrators who were encamped there. The most detailed report of this appearance was written by Parker Donham of the Boston Globe, who interviewed moderate students who had talked with the President. They described Nixon as being incoherent (indeed unable to put a sentence together), sickly looking and somewhat frightening. One of those interviewed described the President as "a robot out of control." In any case, he stammered, broke off into...
...Carswell defeat. As a New York Times political reporter visiting Harvard last spring suggested to a group of students he talked with, it seems quite plausible that Nixon suffered some kind of severe psychic setback after that Senate vote. The reporter felt as well that the then ongoing Cambodian crisis-both the invasion and the super patriotic rhetoric surrounding it-was a product of the same upset mind. He added, of course, that the President was sufficiently isolated from reporters and public that it might take more than a year to discover any stripped gears in the Chief Executive...