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...Foot. The Sasquatch is, or may be, an abominable snowman from British Columbia. A film that may be evidence that the Sasquatch really does exist is being shown in 35 mm at Quincy House...
Life in beleaguered Phnom-Penh was gradually returning to normal. For ten days the Cambodian capital had been spared the pounding of the Khmer Insurgents' artillery. Then suddenly, one day last week at midafternoon, captured American 105-mm. howitzers slammed 73 shells into the city in the worst attack in the history of that...
...Notre Dame College. The government counterattacked with more than 5,000 troops and ordered the city -whose population had been swollen to 80,000 by refugees-to be strafed by F-86 Sabre jets and bombarded by gunboats in the Sulu Sea and army units using mortars and 105-mm. howitzers...
...week, inflicting the most serious damage on the capital in nearly four years of war. Taking advantage of the dry season, Khmer Rouge insurgents moved their forces to within 4½ miles of the city and shelled it over a period of five days with captured U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers. During the attacks, at least 1,200 of the 25-lb. shells rained upon the refugee-packed capital, demolishing flimsy makeshift huts and killing more than 100 civilians...
...howitzer bombardment followed five weeks of almost daily shellings by Soviet-made 122-mm. rockets -less powerful than the howitzer rounds but still terrifying because they fall randomly. After one rocket crashed into the courtyard of the Lycée Descartes, which was luckily empty of children at the time, the Lon Nol regime closed all schools and imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew...