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Meanwhile, Lon Nol's undermanned, overmatched army waited resignedly for a renewed insurgent attack on the capital. "It's only a temporary rest," said one Cambodian lieutenant in charge of twelve men who were guarding a highway bridge ten miles from the capital. His soldiers, he said, were in need of uniforms and rice, and two enemy regiments were waiting a few miles away to seize the highway, thereby securing a level position within easy rocket range of the capital. "In a week or two," said the lieutenant matter-of-factly, "they will come and take the bridge...
...fragment of a story does concentrate on the perils caused by widening a highway by a small town, but the subject there is arbitrariness, not tension; another makes some peripheral play about in-flight motion pictures. But because Cheever and his creations are mainly so tradition-bound, his chronicles of disorder and lack of faith make the needs for faith and order cry out even louder. And Cheever is such a consistently honest and witty writer, carefully building up his characters through dialogue and their own partial vision of the world, and then thrusting them up against unexpected circumstance, that...
From 1946 to 1970, Tsumeb paid South Africa approximately $140 million in taxes. Ratledge claims that the building of the Capetown to Luanda Highway (a strategic supply route to the Portuguese in their fight against the Angolan liberation movement and an element in South Africa's defense of its northwestern boundaries) was financed with Tsumeb's contribution...
...Beirut. It unaccountably blew up the house of the village headman. He escaped, but two of his brothers were shot to death when they rushed out of their houses to see what had happened. Beyond the village, the Israelis coolly set up a roadblock on the coastal highway and then blew up a small factory suspected of supplying explosives to Palestinian terrorists. Three Syrians who ran the factory were killed in the blast. The other two commando contingents struck at the northeast industrial neighborhood of Doura, where they blasted a single-story machine shop believed to be used by terrorists...
...Kodak Executive Anthony da Cruz drove down the highway on the way to his plant near Buenos Aires, a green Ford truck suddenly swerved in front of him near a point where four workers were installing a traffic sign. Da Cruz slammed on the brakes and was rammed from behind by a Fiat pickup. The four "workmen" and four men in the Fiat all rushed forward and hustled Da Cruz away. Five days later, just before releasing the 38-year-old Portuguese American near the spot where they had seized him, the kidnapers gave local newspapers a photograph that showed...