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However brazen the bluff, the name-dropping worked. To prospective investors, Rewald looked gilt-edged by association: he bought a $950,000 house previously owned by deposed Cambodian Strongman Lon Nol and became chummy with Jack Lord, star of the 1968-80 Hawaii Five-O TV series. "Investors" included Lieut. General Arnold Braswell, the Air Force's retiring Pacific commander (more than $100,000), and John Kindschi, the former CIA chief in Honolulu...
During Lien's teenage years Lon Nol's anti-communist government troops battled against increasingly intransigent Khmer Rouge forces in the countryside. Although such conflicts occasionally disrupted Phnom Penh city life and the introduction of military conscription placed a cloud over the future for Lien's two brothers, her family carried on as usual...
...ignore. Refugees from the strife-torn countryside swarmed into the cities; Lien's bookkeeping included a growing number of customers who "borrowed" food from the store. On one occasion a government soldier threatened to pull a grenade pin after Lien's mother refused to give him free beverages. Lon Nol's corrupt, American-supported regime, coupled with U.S. bombings of enemy sanctuaries inside Cambodia, not only bolstered the communist opposition, but also made Lien and her fellow countrymen long for victory by the so-called "gentle, smiling Khmers...
...Soviets also expelled an American consular official in Leningrad, Lon David Augustenborg, and his wife, alleging that they attempted to pick up classified documents. Soviet officials sought to portray the case as part of a widespread espionage effort by the U.S. The State Department protested that the Augustenborgs had been physically mistreated during their arrest, and one report said that they had been stripped at the scene...
...Nobody is sure why Lisa is gone, and everybody is really surprised," commented freshman Lon Stewart one of the few forwards left. "We'll he losing some of our depth, but Kathy is making some quick adjustments. Our only worry is possible injuries. "But we're working it out, and I think our morale is really up to beat Dartmouth Friday...