Word: om
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Last week terror was added to the growing pressure from the left; an unidentified assailant tossed a hand grenade into a car full of rightist politicians and Chinese businessmen. Among the three killed was former Minister of Religion Boun Om, brother of the warlord of southern Laos, whose name is Boun Oum, and uncle of Sisouk na Champassak, the powerful Minister of Defense, who was among those that resigned. It was the first assassination of a rightist political figure since the ceasefire, and has unsettled many leading rightists. They now fear for their own and their families' safety; Boun...
...contest between two Cuban-American candidates for the Republican nomination to a congressional seat last week provided an apt reflection of the prevailing spirit of La Saguesera's people. Miguel Carricarte charged that his rival, Evelio Estrella, could not speak English very well; Estrella charged om turn that Carricarte's Spanish was pretty feeble. Carricarte won easily. He is not expected to defeat veteran Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper in November's general election, but by 1976 or 1978, as increasing numbers of Sagueseranos become eligible to vote, it may be a different story...
...libraries, what would be the point? The Harvard Square Arts Festival continues at the Loeb Ex, though. You can pick up free tickets and more information (I guess) at 6 p.m. the day before each 7:30 performance, but tonight it's something called Stage One, tomorrow an (Om) Theater Workshop, Saturday at 2 a Mask Workshop, Saturday night Collective Movement Theater, Sunday at 2 a Forum, and Sunday night, appropriately enough, a Celebration-- which we can certainly...
...were gambling and prostitution, patronized by foreigners; the central question is clearly not merely exploitation in some financial sense, but the quality of life in a nation under American hegemony. North Vietnam is still in some sense poor and industrially backward, but the North Vietnamese have freed their country om foreign domination and are developing their society and culture in accordance with their own needs and aspirations. Even more than a tragedy of what is, imperialism is the tragedy of what could be, and in that sense, is no different today from its classical predecessor...
Only occasionally is anything heard ??om the elderly in Cambridge. Sixty-??ree per cent of the elderly persons ??? Cambridge (those over 65) pay ???ore than half their income for rent. ???ast Wednesday's public hearing on rent increases was the first time that anyone representing the elderly spoke out on rent control. Catherine Handley of the Committee for the elderly approached the microphone after most everyone else had spoken. A young tenant jumped up to adjust the microphone for the short grey-haired lady in a prim blue pillbox hat. She didn't really say anything different from...