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Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Frank W. Fenno, 70, Navy submarine commander who, shortly before the fall of Corregidor in 1942, stole into enemy-infested Manila Bay in the U.S.S. Trout to deliver a cargo of ammunition and slipped out two days later to carry most of the Philippine treasury to safety; of cancer; in Kensington, Md. On his way to Pearl Harbor with the loot, Fenno sank two enemy vessels, winning the first of three Navy Crosses...
...Sayre first served in Asia as an adviser to the Siamese government. In 1933 he was named assistant secretary of state, and six years later went to the Philippines, then a U.S. possession. Sayre's appointment ended abruptly when, after enduring two months of Japanese bombing in a Corregidor tunnel, he fled the island by submarine...
...hardly a siege, and certainly nothing like Corregidor or Leningrad. Still, over the past two months Communist troops have managed to threaten Phnom-Penh with isolation by severing some of its main links with the outside world. The Cambodian capital's plight is an acute embarrassment to the Lon Nol regime, whose eager but not always effective 160,000-man army has been unable to reopen the vital arteries without outside help. Last week, in what has become a familiar pattern since much of the Indochina war shifted to Cambodia last spring, Phnom-Penh...
...Despite its exhaustive investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, the Warren Commission failed to dispel suspicions that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only man involved in the killing. Unless given a specific goal, and a deadline, commissions can labor for years over the most trifling matters. The Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Commission took 14 years to arrange to build a monument to U.S. and Filipino war dead. In the interval, the exasperated Filipinos put up their own memorial. Even when a commission issues a persuasive report, it is often ignored. Numerous Government task forces have come to the conclusion...
...offensive in Viet Nam forced the travelers to delay their departure for Saigon. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, who had already played host to them at the presidential palace, invited the Americans, along with a number of Filipinos, for a cruise across Manila Bay aboard his yacht, The President. At Corregidor, the visitors went ashore to inspect the bombed-out fortress that U.S. and Filipino defenders surrendered to the Japanese in another war 27 years before...