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...Phnom-Penh cinema. A grenade on a crowded avenue, and plastique attacks on a bus and a locomotive followed. The attacks, which have killed at least 25 and injured 60, can no longer be regarded as isolated incidents. They represent a new phase in the war, said Premier Lon Nol. "This second phase becomes a test of morale, a ferocious battle of nerves...
...sought Sihanouk's help in locating other missing newsmen. Said the prince in a noncommital reply: "I understand the anguish and pain of mothers, wives and children. I myself am confronted with unhappy family problems; for example, my aged, ill mother is kept prisoner by the regime of Lon Nol, which has just arrested and unjustly imprisoned two of my children. War consists of such dramas, but I do not complain because I know that humanity is so made that no one can count on anyone...
...Saigon authorities stop meddling with student activities in university buildings). Several were arrested and severely tortured. The student body responded with another wave of protests. Demonstrators poured into the streets. Then, the invasion of Cambodia sparked an escalation of the struggle; the students, demanding that the government condemn the Lon Nol regime's pogroms of Vietnamese in Cambodia, "liberated" the empty Cambodian embassy in Saigon. Militant peace banners ("We want peace, not solutions") appeared with increasing frequency during the mass protest marches...
Affluence has its price, of course. "The odor is terrible," complains Mrs. Jean Puckett, who has wells and burn-offs to either side of her one-acre lot. "It's just like leaving on a gas stove without lighting it." Lon Whaley, who has two of the natural gas burn-offs lighting up his front yard like the county fairgrounds, has difficulty getting to sleep at night. And Noah Blevins worries about the landscape: "It 'bout made me sick to see them drillin' and tearin' up what I spent all my life buildin...
...hardly a single unleased acre left in Scott and three neighboring counties. Though no resident has yet become a millionaire, some are getting pretty close. Blevins, for example, expects to gross nearly $200,000 a year in royalties-close to his total earnings for all of his 55 years. Lon Whaley expects to do even better...