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...China. Now that President Nioxn has lowered the watergate on China visiting, everyone and his cousin is touring the Middle Kingdom with camera crew in tow to record every delightful moment of the trip. If Cambridge restauranteur Joyce Chen's home movies are as good as her pork lo mein, this Boston special promises to better the average. Included are obligatory visits to the Great Wall, Canton, and Shanghai plus interesting side trips to Chen's family home and the resort town of Hangchow Harvard's own John Kenneth Galbraith cameos as himself. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
...Lo had just brought his shell-scarred Lucky Star to the dock in Phnom-Penh last week−the 3,500-ton lead ship in a convoy that had to run a gauntlet of Communist gunfire to reach the encircled Cambodian capital. Normally, such ships−manned by Chinese crews that get large, unspecified war bonuses to do the work−set out every ten days from the South Vietnamese port of Vung Tau with cargoes of machinery, machine parts and fuel. The latest convoy, however, was delayed two weeks while U.S. bombers tried to clear a passage through Communist...
...seldom extends south of the frontier. Once in Cambodian waters, the freighters take aboard a Cambodian pilot and a navy radio operator who tunes in on military frequencies for word of fighting around the bends in the snaking river. "I watch the pilot and the radio operator," says Captain Lo. "When I see them put on their helmets and flak jackets, I do the same. That's all we can do−and hope for the best...
...last week's run, the relatively fast (twelve knots) Lucky Star came under cannon fire one night three miles south of the Cambodian border. Two 75-mm. cannon and a B40 rocket scored direct hits on the vessel's superstructure. Two tankers on Lo's stern caught 14 rockets. When Lo looked back, he saw a smaller cargo vessel, the 1,500-ton Ally, burning and beached on the riverbank. In all, ten of the 18 vessels in the original convoy decided to turn back to An Long...
...Lo pressed ahead, only to discover that even friendly forces were dangerous in the darkness. An American plane "came ripping across the river about a tenth of a mile off my bow and dropped a bomb in the water," says Lo. "I don't know what the hell it was doing...