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...Rieng with Phnom-Penh, leading some observers to speculate that they hoped to lure a large defense force across the river and trap it there. To the south, a combined force of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops advanced on the provincial capital of Takeo. During one of its fiercest battles against seasoned Communist troops so far, the inexperienced Cambodian army lost 150 men killed or missing in 48 hours...
...Marines three combat divisions and three aircraft wings, and though Marine strength will shrink from its March 1969 level of 317,400 to below 200,000 as part of the general military cutback, the Corps itself will doubtless survive. Having fought heroically in some of the nation's fiercest battles, it has won the admiration of a vast number of Americans as well as powerful friends in Congress. Even if the U.S. in fact ceases to be "the world's policeman," it will still need a tough, seasoned force of firemen, if not cops, to protect American interests...
...apparent throughout the papers. One of his strengths is his conviction that the Chinese government must be at one with the masses. He hates the bureaucracy for having interfered with this sacred relationship. His "Twenty Manifestations of Bureaucracy," one of the papers acquired by the U.S., is among the fiercest diatribes of its kind in modern history. In it, Mao inveighs against those who are "divorced from the masses . . . rotten sensualists who glut themselves for days on end . . . engage in speculation . . . call a doctor when they are not sick." In sum, bureaucrats are "eight-sided and as slippery as eels...
...sides to the generation gap. Just as there are graybeards over 30 who don't know where it's at, there are peach fuzzes barely 20 who haven't the foggiest of where it used to be. Take the traditional college experience, for example. The fiercest barricades used to be social, not political-because the politics were personal, not ideological. It was more important to get in with the right people than get on with the struggle against an unjust world. The results, in those days, were relationships that were both sturdy and slightly sick...
...Glorious Sound of Christmas, the Messiah and The Lord's Prayer - were made by the Philadelphia Orchestra,* a top seller down through the years, and the most-recorded orchestra in the U.S. Small wonder, then, that it finds itself right in the middle of one of the fiercest, most extraordinary competitive battles the record industry has ever known...