Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week when State Department Soviet Expert Marshall Shulman predicted that the Soviet Union would not intervene to punish China. Said Shulman: "If [the war] remains essentially at roughly the same scale, it seems to us not likely that the Soviet Union will respond on the Sino-Soviet border." Others close to the President are less sanguine, worrying that the longer the Chinese-Vietnamese conflict goes on, the more likely some Russian action becomes...
...frontier posts are being shelled by heavy artillery," a Vietnamese provincial official announced. "Bloody fighting is taking place, human casualties are certainly heavy." Said a wounded 18-year-old Vietnamese soldier named Trien Van Mien, who staggered into town and fell in the road: "The Chinese are close by, they are everywhere...
...chance conversation with a pilot friend, who asked if the venting of dirty water from handbasins in aircraft lavatories during flight (a common airline practice) could spread disease-causing bacteria. Intrigued, Rondle decided to investigate. He picked cholera as a potential airborne culprit because public health agencies keep close tabs on the disease. Thus when he traced regular aircraft routes between Calcutta, where cholera is endemic, and Western Europe, he found that the unexplained cholera cases had invariably occurred along or near these pathways...
Rondle concedes that his bacterial "bombs" are still only theoretical, yet he feels that they bear watching. Says he: "If cholera can be spread even only occasionally by effluent from aircraft, then close investigation should be made of the possibility of other bacteria and viruses being spread in a similar...
...most successfully does without, and whose performance is consistently the most moving, is Julie Woods as Synthia. Voted most popular, Synthia is a cool, blunt observer; she's the one you used to turn to when closer friends became close and you needed some perspective on the emotional carnage. She, more than anyone else in the show, makes her stereotype a person. With an extraordinarily strong voice and a very smooth, sarcastic style, Woods escapes the limits of the revue form and forces us to share the events of her days from her unhappy first brush with sex (described...