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...battle at the end of the film was based on a New Year's Day skirmish less than a mile from the Cambodian border. "They hit us with about 5,000 troops that night. They laid bombs right on top of us; we dropped bombs right on them. It's possible that our high command was using us as bait to draw the ! Viet Cong out so we could inflict heavy casualties. We lost about 25 dead and 175 wounded; we killed about 500 of them. Their bodies were scraped up by bulldozers, just like in the movie. For that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Sugarbush (802 583-2381) is just outside of Waitsfield, Vermont. Take Interstate 93 to Interstate 89, just south of Concord. Get off at Vermont Exit 9, and follow Route 100B South through Moretown, where it joins Route 100, to Waitsfied. From there you take Route 17 one mile to the German Flats Road. Sugarbush North is there, and the main Sugarbush resort lies just a little further on the Sugarbush Access Road...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Vermont's Best White Powder | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

Freshmen Meredith Rainey (59.7, second) and Beth Pfefferle (59.9, third), and junior Jennifer Toomey (61.6, fourth) notched points in the quarter-mile run, while Rainey placed third (25.9) in the 200 meter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Makes Boston Quiver | 1/21/1987 | See Source »

Ever since 1914, when U.S. engineers connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by carving a 43-mile-long canal across the Isthmus of Panama, the two ! countries have been intimately linked. So great is American influence that the U.S. dollar is legal currency in Panama. Yet Panamanians are extremely sensitive to any slight from their northern neighbors, especially since their nation is due to take over full jurisdiction of the canal at the end of 1999. Thus diplomats scurried for cover last June, when Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina, an opponent of the controversial 1977 treaty that turned over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Dollars | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...yards from his house to a two-room cottage that serves as his study. He emerges around 1 for lunch and then disappears until 4:30 in the afternoon, when it is time for a swim in his pool or, if the weather has turned chilly, for a six-mile walk. He spends evenings listening to classical music and reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Varnished Truths of Philip Roth | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

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