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...annual offensive in Kampuchea to flush out the estimated 45,000 armed rebels opposed to the Hanoi-backed government of President Heng Samrin. Vietnamese soldiers destroyed Phnom Chat, a border village sympathetic to the Khmer Rouge, the largest of the guerrilla groups, then pulverized O Samach, a settlement 70 miles to the northeast that served as an outpost for the 30,000 followers of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. During the blitz, however, the Vietnamese aimed their fire not only at the insurgents but at unarmed civilians in both Kampuchea and neighboring Thailand. Hanoi's troops ventured a mile into Thai...
Hanoi's ties to the Soviets worry Peking, which follows the old adage that an enemy's friend is an enemy as well. China and Viet Nam may have similar cultures and an 800-mile common border, but the two countries also share a historic animosity that stretches back more than 2,000 years. Though Peking provided Hanoi with as much as $20 billion in aid during the war, tensions began to build in 1978, when ethnic Chinese fled Viet Nam as a result of Hanoi's economic policies. Then, shortly after the Soviet-Vietnamese treaty...
...either. This month, to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary, these two critical elements of the beauty-and-the-beast tale were reunited: a ten-story, 3,000-lb. inflatable Kong (at 84 ft., more than 30 ft. taller than the original) was hoisted a quarter-mile in the air to his old haunt atop the Empire State. Even without the menacing biplanes, Kong fared poorly, with tangled cables and tears in his heavy vinyl-coated nylon skin. But after a week of deflating mishaps, the balloon's builders, who plan to take the ape on tour this...
...shocked if you bump into someone running laps around the Yard this weekend. The jogger is not a straggler from this week's Boston Marathon, but a participant in a 347-mile relay which is sponsored by a student meditation group...
...things continue as they've been going this spring. Jones should have a good shot at attaining his goal. Despite miserable conditions, he has run well the last two weeks, beating the 500 Heptagonal Champion on Saturday in the quarter mile...