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...than this once tranquil and fertile land. Though neutral in the early years of the Viet Nam War, Cambodia unwittingly became a base for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese, and the target of savage U.S. bombings. Its popular Chief of State, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, was overthrown by Premier Lon Nol in 1970. Lon Nol was in turn deposed by Pol Pot when the Khmer Rouge, as the Cambodian Communist forces are called, took over the country in 1975. After four years of mass terror and murder under the Khmer Rouge the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia last December and installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deathwatch: Cambodia | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...South House defense gave up its first points of the season late in the fourth quarter when Quincy reached paydirt following a fumble on SoHo's 13-yd. line. Joe Scipione, playing for absent signal caller Lon Hatamiya, scored on a nine yard run with 1:04 remaining...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Last Minute Drive Lifts SoHo to Title | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Also witnesses to the tragedy were three American Senators-Democrats James Sasser of Tennessee and Max Baucus of Montana and Republican John Danforth of Missouri-who last week became the first U.S. officials to visit Phnom-Penh since the fall of the Lon Nol government in 1975. Cambodian officials reluctantly admitted to the Senators that ''people are going hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Help for the Auschwitz of Asia | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...international bankers find this money eminently spendable. If Exxon earns $100 million on sales in Europe and deposits it in a U.S. bank's Lon don branch, the money becomes Eurodollars, and the bank can lend it to some other company to build a plant in Turin or Trenton. Because the dol lars are outside the U.S., the bank is free from Federal Reserve rules that require it to keep as much as 16.25% of its U.S. demand deposits frozen rather than loaned out. Since this free dom lowers the bank's costs, it can pay perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clash over Stateless Cash | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...teams were not as evenly matched as the score indicates, with the Q-World offense, paced by halfback Jim Rosenfeld and quarterback Lon Hatamiya, dominating play. A 40-yard pass play from Hatamiya to Art O'Keefe provided the game's winning touchdown...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Quincy, Kirkland Post Wins | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

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