Word: mapped
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...that calls itself the Khmer Serei, or Free Cambodian Movement. Led by former Cambodian Premier Son Ngoc Thanh, the Khmer Serei claims that it has 10,000 troops sprinkled throughout the steaming Cambodian jungles and the Dangrek Range, with a main force at Stung Treng near southern Laos (see map). On New Year's Eve the group's Radio Free Cambodia declared war on Sihanouk "to free Cambodia from his suicidal policies"; a few hours later Khmer Serei groups raided four Cambodian military forts, capturing some Chinese arms and killing 28 of Sihanouk's men. In another...
Harvard now owns a 60-foot radio telescope operating at Agassiz Station in Harvard. The telescope, built in 1956, has done important work on radio emissions from hydrogen in space that led to a new map of the galaxy drawn from radio data. By now, however, the telescope is one of the smallest in the country still doing original research...
Roman Traffic Commissioner Antonio Pala's plan was simple enough: prohibit all private cars from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. from the 35-block, 25-acre heart of the city's shopping center (see map). Shoppers would thus have an "isola pedonale"-a pedestrian island-all to themselves during peak hours save for buses and taxis. All seemed bellissimo when the plan went into effect: children calmly played soccer at the foot of the Spanish steps, where autos once hurtled blithely by; grown-ups ambled wonderingly down the center...
...year U.S.-Thai military development program was proceeding apace. Two U.S. Army engineer battalions worked side by side in rising red dust with Royal Thai Army engineers, carving a broad, all-weather military highway-the Bangkok Bypass road-from the Gulf of Siam to the northeast provinces (see map). At the ocean end of the road, the U.S. is building the $11.9 million Sattahip Naval Airbase, replete with jet strips, a deepwater pier, and 70 ammunition bunkers. At the other end stands Camp Friendship, near the town of Korat, where 500 Americans and 850 Thais stand watch over $30 million...
...bothered to check on just where the mountains were. "I don't think we fully realized," Schlesinger writes airily, "that the Escambray Mountains lay 80 miles from the Bay of Pigs, across a hopeless tangle of swamps and jungles." Surely somebody deserves censure for failing to consult a map...