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...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 airport. Insurgents...
...that the union is controlled by local workers. The broader stricture of the union, determined by a constitutional convention held in 1973, was designed by workers to stay open and responsive to their needs. The UFW exists as part of a movement against racial oppression. The workers, largely Chicano, Filipino, black and Asia, are struggling against the conditions that have kept them in poverty for centuries. The elected governing board of the Union is made up of five Chicanos, two Filipinos, one black and one Jew, in reflection of the racial composition of the membership. Through the union, the unorganized...
...Fran Striker and George W. Trendle, who furnished them both with similar appurtenances. The Masked Rider of the Plains had a faithful Indian companion, Tonto, and a 200-carpower horse, Silver. The Green Hornet had a faithful Japanese valet, Kato (during World War II Kato abruptly became a Filipino), and a supercar with the name of a horse, Black Beauty. The supernatural thrived in a Poe-like atmosphere on Inner Sanctum and Lights Out -programs that featured echo chambers, creaking doors and the indelible clack of skeletons rising from granite tombs. Dashiell Hammett's detectives, Sam Spade, The Thin...
...Filipino internists accepted the offer last May. Word of the program spread through the neighborhood, and the doctors now average about 30 patients a day, with ailments that range from a child's simple cough to stomach cancer. Since the clinic opened, it has referred 196 patients to Cabrini, raising the hospital's "bed census" by about 5%. "The idea is working," says Hospital Board Chairman Sister Irma Lunghi. "We're not saying that this is going to save the hospital, or the community either, but it is a start...
Impressive. Though their leadership varies, the best-trained and best-equipped groups seem to be under the command of well-educated militants in their late 20s. Knowledge of the hilly terrain helps make the Moslem rebels impressive foes. "These people are better fighters than the Viet Cong," says a Filipino colonel who spent 13 months in Viet Nam. "This is the cream of the Philippine army down here and they are teaching us how to fight...