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...week, for example, rumors circulated in Phnom-Penh for several days that he might resign, which could possibly pave the way toward some kind of negotiations with the Khmer Rouge insurgents. Instead, Lon Nol staged a modest Cabinet reshuffling and fired his arrogant commander in chief, Lieut. General Sosthene Fernandez, who is hated both for his corruption (his army payroll is inflated with fake names) and for refusing to take orders from the National Assembly. At the presidential palace, Lon Nol threw a champagne party for Fernandez and his successor, Lieut. General Sak Sutsakhan. Fernandez wept and kissed the national...
...also asked Long Boret, who has served as his reasonably capable Premier since December 1973, to form a new government. This task, however, did not go quite so smoothly as the long overdue sacking of Fernandez. The problem was that Lon Nol's younger brother, Lon Non, was back on the scene trying to regain a position in the government. Two years ago, under pressure from the U.S., Lon Nol sent his ruthless brother, who had become an extremely powerful palace figure, overseas as a roving good-will ambassador. The rivalry between Lon Non and Premier Boret was reportedly...
...Cambodian capital of Phnom-Penh held out for another desperate week. The Khmer Rouge insurgents kept up their asphyxiating pressure on the city's Mekong River lifeline, thereby depriving the capital of crucial supplies and diverting large numbers of government troops from the city's defense. Sosthene Fernandez, the Vietnamese-Filipino commander in chief of government forces, stoutly insisted that "we can open the river," but the chief of naval operations, Admiral Vong Sarendy, conceded that the situation on the Mekong was "hopeless." Meanwhile, the capital's sole maintaining lifeline of emergency supplies was the Phnom-Penh...
Harvard goaltender Roberto Fernandez made 32 saves while collecting...
...that account for 70% of the world's copper exports last week adopted some of OPEC's tactics. Zambia, Zaire, Chile and Peru, members of a cartel called the Intergovernmental Council of Copper Exporting Countries (CIPEC) announced plans to reduce shipments of the metal by 10%. Said Fernandez Maldonado, Peru's Minister of Energy and Mines: "The Arabs have shown...