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...know will not come out well." At the moment, indeed, the fate of the Cambodian people that he and other foreigners left behind is an agonizingly unanswerable question. The makeup of the new government is not yet clear, and the danger of factional fighting appears great. A fortnight ago, the Khmer Rouge leadership reportedly held a "national congress" in Phnom-Penh, with Khieu Samphan, the military commander and Deputy Premier, in attendance. Few Khmer Rouge leaders have publicly mentioned Prince Norodom Sihanouk. Though he remains the titular head of the new government, it is hard to imagine the temperamental...
...Commerce of the U.S., Goldwater declared: "If he keeps speaking that way, he'll get the backing of conservatives all over the country. He's talking about the economy, and that's the only issue." Rockefeller took another big step toward conciliating the right a fortnight ago when he apologized to the Senate for any "discourtesy" he may have shown Alabama's Democratic Senator James B. Allen. Last February, while chairing the Senate, Rockefeller had angered conservatives by refusing to recognize Allen during debate of a rule change to limit filibustering (TIME, March...
Lately Perelman has been fighting back in other ways. Four years ago, scarcely a fortnight after he was declared a national resource in the New York Times Book Review, he declared a pox on New York City's street life and "twice breathed air," and announced that at the age of 69 he was exiling himself to London. Two years later Perelman was back, grumbling about "too much couth" and the lack of seeds in British rye bread...
...made love to a white man in a rest room at Paris' Orly Airport. Last week Amin ordered Uganda's newspapers to publish an old photograph of her in the nude to prove, Amin said, that "she has plunged into an abyss of immorality." A fortnight ago, Finance Minister Emmanuel Wakhweya fled to London, explaining: "To live in Uganda today is hell...
...have been building for years. In 1970 two film makers produced a feature documentary, The Second Gun, that questioned whether Sirhan fired the fatal bullet. Last May seeming conflicts in the evidence were examined at a hearing in Los Angeles conducted by County Supervisor Baxter Ward. In the past fortnight, skepticism reached a new height. Harper's, New Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times all published lengthy-and contradictory -reconsiderations of the case. Last week former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein concluded his review of the assassination by calling for a new look...