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...officials, mindful of the chaotic series of regimes that followed the 1963 coup in Saigon, insist that they are not interested in promoting any sudden changes of government in Phnom-Penh. Even so, the President's brother took certain precautions last week. He placed an extra cordon of troops around Sirik Matak's Phnom-Penh villa-ostensibly for his old rival's protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: From Bleak to Awful | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...then the drizzle began; quiet in the beginning, increasing like all other forms of rain. The drizzle began and soaked her. Choices moved beyond her reach, like flying ants. Filled, filled and filling; the emotion's enormity drowned her. Then empty, momentarily and not calm but at least not chaotic; simply being...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

Thomas A. Gill '76, the chief organizer and master of ceremonies for the dinner, was the frequent target of verbal abuse and flying chunks of food at the chaotic affair...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Male Chauvinists Discuss 'Libbers' At Dinner in Union | 3/24/1973 | See Source »

...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and as chief Faculty legislator, the dean exerts a critical influence in the academic and non-academic lives of students. Harvard's near-refusal last Spring to allow SDS to meet on campus, the design of legislation opposing CRR reform, the chaotic situation facing the Afro-American Studies Department, and the current impasse between graduate students and the Administration are all, in large measure, the responsibility of the former dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Replacing the Dean | 3/14/1973 | See Source »

...have often been frustrating, but we basically understand each other," says a high Administration official. "The Socialist-Communist coalition is something else altogether." Washington fears that a Socialist-Communist victory in France could also enhance the opportunities of the large, disciplined Communist Party in Italy, a country with a chaotic political life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIVALS (I): How America Looks at Europe | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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