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...regime, after five years of military attempts to assert its rule, is on the verge of collapse. Hundreds of thousands of refugees face the prospect of starvation in the coming weeks; troops still loyal to Lon Nol are disorganized and demoralized. The regime now rests on a single pillar; the daily American airlift of rice and ammunition into Phnom Penh. American experts and policy-makers are unanimous in their opinion that Phnom Penh would fall almost immediately to the Khmer Rouge without the airlift...
...winning Free to Be...You and Me will be shown daily for $.50. On the regular program beginning tonight is Bunuel's Simon of the Desert, among other things, a film from the director's Mexican period about a Christian mystic who moves to the top of a high pillar in the middle of the desert, hauling up his food by ropes, to commune with The Lord. As vicious about Catholicism as usual, with Bunuel's only attempt I've over seen to make a statement about "beat" culture (which, strangely, he likens to hell). Off the Wall, "Coffeehouse...
...such an effective strategy. Though military tactics were the only ones by which a Saigon government primarily representing South Vietnam's landlords and small business class could hope to dominate the country, it seemed as though the American antiwar dissent evoked by Vietnamese resistance might have forced the main pillar of any Saigon attack out from under...
...flickered across 8,000 forms, the fire mirrored on their foreheads. Lurching into the warm at top speed comes a bog car to the tune of I'm the King of Rock and Roll. It runs head on into the bus. The night sky is consumed by a rising pillar of fire, weaving its eerie, smoke-obscured path across the entire breadth of the countryside. There is no end to the burning. I drift off to the garages to see the cars being taken apart. At 2:00 the bog still lights the western...
...over 3,000 per day; the violator is subject to fail, fines, and/or whipping with no trial. The average monthly wage for an African is 7 rand ($9.80). South Africa has the world's largest hanging rate, with 118 executed in 1968 alone. The passbook has been called the pillar of apartheid, the main tool with which the white-ruling clique keeps the African majority under its thumb...