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...does seem to have been a period of relaxation last spring. Some of the hostages were moved into larger and more comfortable rooms. Queen was transferred from the Mushroom to a room in the chancellery building. Its window was bricked up, but some light seeped through cracks in the mortar. Said Queen: "I can't describe what it was like to wake up one morning and see light and hear people again. I remember there were a couple of schoolgirls just walking along and talking and singing outside. It can't be described what it meant to feel...
...subsequent rescue became part of a TIME cover story. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White was in Kampala for this week's World story on the Uganda elections when he and Photographer Bill Campbell were trapped for two hours at the downtown cable office under a hail of government mortar and machine-gun fire. All the first aid needed when it was over was for a broken suffered by Campbell in a jump from the top of a court yard wall to reach the safety of the American embassy...
...Iranian outposts a few hundred yards away. In the distance, thick plumes of smoke arise from the burning oil refinery at Abadan. An Iraqi private describes how the remaining Iranian defenders have split into three-and four-man sniper squads. Some of the squads have attempted "hit and run" mortar assaults from the south bank of the Karun. An Iraqi general predicts that Abadan could fall within a week, depending on the intransigence of the Iranian holdouts and the willingness of the Iraqis to take sizable losses...
...messages from Hanoi and Peking crackled with bellicosity. On July 4 the official Viet Nam news agency reported that a protest note had been delivered to the Chinese embassy, charging that Peking's forces had fired "hundreds of mortar shells" at two towns in Hoang Lien Son province. Two days later, Radio Hanoi reported that Chinese gunners had provoked an artillery duel, "causing dozens of casualties and destroying many houses." Peking responded in kind. On July 5 a protest note was sent to Viet Nam's embassy in the Chinese capital, accusing Hanoi of "incessant armed provocations" along...
...helmet lay on the blood-covered floor. A few hours later, Thai soldiers dragged the body of the driver, one of their men, from the paddy. In another paddyfield, seven dead Vietnamese soldiers were fished out. Suddenly someone yelled 'Incoming!' and we leaped out of the car. Mortar rounds, fired by Vietnamese down the road, were landing very close. After five near hit rounds, we sprinted for a nearby culvert where we cowered, along with some villagers, until the barrage was over...