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Kontum, Pleiku and Darlac provinces in the Central Highlands-a rolling area of rain forest and coffee and tea plantations on the border of Laos and Cambodia-were the first to go (see map). Later, Quang Tri province in northernmost Military Region I was given up. Although not officially abandoned by Saigon, Thua Thien, containing the ancient imperial capital of Hue, was by week's end clearly in imminent danger of falling into North Vietnamese hands. In the South, only 50 miles north of Saigon and next to already fallen Phuoc Long, Binh Long province was relinquished. In addition...
...theater that seats 800 people and an inflatable church that conveniently folds down to a 2-ft. by 4-ft. package after services. His passion for bubbles has also hit him where he lives: a shimmering, red-and-white candy-striped vinyl bubble house at the edge of a forest in La Ferté-Alais, 28 miles south of Paris...
Frank Fisher has learned quite well how to live with himself. On this Sunday morning the oak logs that he cut from the forest on Blue Hill south of Boston are burning in the old Franklin fireplace on the first floor of his half-house on Farwell Place. Fisher says he emerged from "narrow scrapes" with marriage in his middle years, and is much more secure in his solitary situation today. "The conventional pressure to follow a particular family pattern was ever so much stronger 25 years ago," he says...
...head), the boy Oblio (David Morse) is unjustly banished from his homeland. The Land of Point. He and his canine companion Arrow have a series of adventures--all too reminiscent of those of Alice in Wonderland--through which Oblio arrives at several earth-shattering conclusions: that the allegedly "Pointless" Forest to which he has been banished is not pointless after all, that "you don't have to have a point to have a point," and that "a point in every direction is the same as no point at all." Gee. So after this dazzling flood of psychological enlightenment. Oblio retrurns...
...both push him a little farther than he might go sometimes and let him quit before he might other times. He churned up and down in the otherwise snowy landscape. He walked a good deal at Camp David and gave the snowmobiles a couple of quick turns through the forest...