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Tenessee Williams offers the Commencement Day address after the Class of '74's first choice, Soupy Sales, declines to attend the ceremonies. Despite a year of speculation, Cambodian dictator Lon Nol again does not receive an honorary degree from Harvard. Instead, the University honors "three men whose service to the cause of peace and justice is legend": Spain's Generalissimo Franco, President Juan Peron of Argentina, and Urguay's up-and-coming fascist, Juan Bordaberry...
...many stations are limiting them to 50, 25 or even 10 gal. at a time. So the drivers must chase from truck stop to truck stop, wasting precious driving time, to keep their four-miles-to-the-gal-lon rigs running. The drivers want a generous allocation of fuel to the truck stops to keep them on the road...
Somewhere in Cambodia, peasants are trudging back to their bombed out villages. Although fighting still flares between the revolutionary Khmer Rouge and the American-backed Lon No1 government, the murderous American bombing ended over two months ago, called off by Congressional decree after 160 consecutive days of aerial...
Some have called the battle of Kompong Cham a dress rehearsal for the expected siege of Phnom-Penh. Others have said that it was a diversion to drain off the best of President Lon Nol's troops. Still others have insisted that it was a major insurgent effort in which the rebels were soundly beaten. Some or all of these theories may be true. What is certain is that it was another bitter round in a senseless...
...world's best friend in the fight against U.S. imperialism. Whereupon Prince Sihanouk took to the floor and, without bothering with a microphone, began vigorously dissenting. "We fully respect the Soviet Union," he declared. "But one thing we cannot understand is why Moscow maintains diplomatic relations with the Lon Nol clique of traitors with whom we are fighting...