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...getting up every morning and boarding DC-8 cargo transport lets bound for Phnom Penh. The planes flying south from Thailand carry nearly 600 tons of ammunition a day to loyalist forces in Cambodian capital. Or so it seems. Early this week the UPI reported that on Feb. 27 Lon Nol ordered distribution of all rise rations to be restricted to government soldiers...
...million residents of Phnom Penh. Since 1971--when Nixon decided to send American troops on an "incursion" into Cambodia to break NLF supply lines to South Vietnam--Cambodia has been sliding deeper into war. The struggle there between the Khmer Rouge revolutionaries and the troops of the Lon Nol regime has reached a crisis. The Khmer Rouge have the capital city surrounded, with all land and water approaches cut off and they are shelling the city now from an four sides. According to reports in the western media, they now control close to 90 per cent of the territory...
...Native Americans he photographed and filmed at the beginning of this century. With narration by Donald Sutherland and Patrick Watson. Showing with it is Thomas Edison's The Great Train Robbery (1913). The Phantom of the Opera. This must be the 1925 Rupert Julian American version with Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin (the best version), because Harkness Commons is featuring a live piano player. Too bad there can't be an organ there for the Phantom pumping away at Toccata and Fugue in the sewers under the Opera House...
...parents: "Any body who lives in Ireland can testify to the absence of love in the average home." Fathers drink too much, then beat their wives and children with heavy, indiscriminate hands. Violence learned at the hearth is later re-enacted in the Irish Republican Army. O'Han lon cites his own unhappy home life ("a cockpit of hatred") as evidence for this generalized calumny on the Irish family. Insiders and outsiders alike may find his findings too terrible - and a bit too pat - to be true...
...those at the reunion were satisfied that either force or quiet diplomacy would bring the missing journalists back. Some Indochina hands argued that the prisoners would never be returned as long as the U.S. continued to prop up the Lon Nol government. Others were less political; Louise Stone -wife of Freelance Photographer Dana Stone, who was on assignment for CBS News-announced that she is preparing her own mission on foot through the area in Cambodia where her husband was last seen...