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...Lon J. Wilson, professor of chemistry at Rice, says he is confident that Rupp will stay in Houston, citing his "15-year plan" for developing the university...
...attacks into South Vietnam. In 1969 the Nixon Administration began the secret U.S. bombing of the sanctuaries. Then in April 1970 it joined South Vietnam in an invasion to clean them out. Just before the assault, Sihanouk was overthrown by a pro-U.S. junta led by Prime Minister Lon Nol, and Cambodians were suddenly engulfed in war against North Vietnamese and their then allies the Khmer Rouge, while U.S. bombs rained from above...
...when Asians try out political roles, the "otherness" factor again comes into play. The family of Lon Hatamiya, a Japanese-American attorney, has lived in the agricultural region around Sacramento for more than 80 years. But when Hatamiya decided to run in next June's primary for a seat in California's 120-member state legislature, most voters seemed to regard him as an alien. "They look at us as if we're recent immigrants," he says. No one seemed to notice that the local roots of his white opponent do not go back as far as those...
...many Cambodians, it doesn't matter whether they are living under [opposition co-leader] Lon Nol or Hun Sen; it's all the same," only, "They worry about their children having to fight a war," Dith Pran wrote in a New York Times Magazine piece on his return to Cambodia for the first time since his escape from the Khmer Rouge. While the U.S. may have to swallow its pride by accepting a diplomatic victory for the Vietnamese for the moment, everyone would benefit in the long run. Everyone, that is, except the Khmer Rouge...
...dancing opens with a traditional tap challenge, each man showing his best stuff in turn. Savion Glover, 15, who enacted The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway in 1983, is predictably upstaged by such snowy-haired hoofers as Bunny Briggs, Lon Chaney and Ralph Brown. Glover reappears in a breakneck gymnastic number, hopping up and down stairs, while his elders return in slow, sentimental sequences to demonstrate the traditional tap presumption that less can be more. That is in contrast to the basic notion of Black and Blue, which seems to be that more is more. Yet in the understated moments...