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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...process have suffered heavy casualties. Some battalions were wiped out completely. Others returned with as few as a dozen men in good condition; the rest were killed, wounded or captured. Reports filtered into the capital of remnants of three battalions, totaling 400 or 500 men, who surrendered en masse to the Khmer Rouge. Their action raises the suggestion that if things get much worse, large numbers of government troops might be tempted to surrender, vanish or defect to the other side...
Until last Tuesday night, Danny Bolduc had blended in among the faces in the crowd of Crimson hockey players that as a team was tearing up its opposition en route to the number-one ranking in the country...
...that time of year again. ECAC playoff time, when all the marbles are up for grabs. Even for a team like Harvard, which made mincemeat of its Eastern opponents en route to the number one ECAC ranking, all that really counts is how well it does in the post season playoffs...
...Good Ship Lollipop was obviously not quite the thing for Accra. So instead, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Shirley Temple Black, 46, jogged a local high-life stomp before a delighted crowd. En paste for less than three months, Shirley has already started coming to grips with local tribal languages, tossing off "akwaaba " (welcome in Twi) and "oy-iwala donn " (thank you in Ga) without even a hint of her notorious childhood lisp. Resident Americans who greeted Shirley with skepticism now call her a solid plus for Uncle Sam. Said one Ghanaian official happily: "It's good to have...
...Chabrol's self-appointed mission to heighten our awareness" of these struggles by presenting them in an admittedly exaggerated, stylized manner, a manner that deliberately jars against his utterly realistic mise-en-scéne. There are moments in his movies in which be lief in what one is seeing threatens to dissolve into laughter, but there are many more in which we are shocked into a new awareness that beneath the surface of ordinary-looking lives, high dramas of genuine moral dimensions are being played...