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...resettlement on rural communes that were no better than slave-labor camps. Even the wounded were prodded at gunpoint from hospital beds ?and left to die along the roadside if they were too weak to walk. At the camps, Cambodians of all ages were forced to work from dawn until after dusk planting rice. Families were separated, Buddhism abolished as the state religion and virtually every trapping of civilization disappeared: postal services, telephones, currency, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deathwatch: Cambodia | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Demonstrators, many of whom camped in church cellars or homes of protest organizers Sunday night, gathered shortly after dawn, physically blocking entrances to the police check points while they sang folk songs and begged employees to "stay home, just for a single...

Author: By William E. Mckibben and James L. Tyson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: Police Arrest 1002 Anti-Nuke Protesters At Wall St. Rally | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

...Jordan. Should the U.S. intervene, or should it give Israel the go-ahead to help King Hussein with attacks against the Syrian invaders? "I have decided it," says Richard Nixon in a dawn phone conversation with Henry Kissinger. "Don't ask anybody else. Tell him [Israel's Yitzhak Rabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...that goes up Monday morning when one group returns from a nighttime foray with 30 feet of the tempered steel. But now, the fence is only in the way, and the goals--the rusting reactor vessel and the turbine building, each flying an American flag--stand outlined in the dawn...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Weekend at Seabrook | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

SEABROOK, N.H.--Several thousand nuclear protesters will attempt an illegal takeover at dawn today of the partially constructed nuclear power plant here...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Seabrook Protesters Prepare at Site | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

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