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With Phnom-Penh in the eye of the Indochina hurricane, tourist hotels are nearly empty. Knots of frightened Vietnamese gather at the airport for flights to Saigon every day; by night, the air port is closed while U.S. supplies are flown in aboard unmarked planes. Yet the mood of the city's 500,000 people is closer to giddy apprehension than grim determination. The floating nightclubs along the Mekong, with their dark-eyed Khmer girls dancing to The Tennessee Waltz, still do thriving business...
...musical marital chairs, Stavros divorced Eugenia in 1965 to marry Charlotte Ford, who bore him a daughter six months later. They were divorced within 15 months, after which Niarchos found his way back to Eugenia, said a friend, like "one of his own tankers drifting back to home port after a transatlantic junket...
...After his April 20 speech, the President flew back from San Clemente to Washington to be greeted with the news that Communist troops had attacked two key Cambodian towns. In the next four days, they attacked and occupied four more, including the seaport of Kep. The capture of a port city was particularly alarming, since it gave the Communists a shipping terminal to replace Sihanoukville (now known by its old name, Kampong Som), which the Lon Nol government had closed to Communist traffic. "A border base is one thing," says the adviser. "A contiguous area supplied by sea, and interlocking...
Bombed to rubble in World War II, Rotterdam later became a marvel of economic growth. Holland's second biggest city now boasts the world's busiest port and a vast complex of petrochemical plants with blue-chip owners like Shell and British Petroleum. Unfortunately, the marvel also gushes appalling fumes - acrylates, hydrocarbons, paint solvents and sulfur dioxide. Of all Dutch deaths from bronchitis in urban areas, the highest number occur in Rotterdam. Dutch workers are quitting the city's industries, which are seeking replacements from as far away as Turkey...
...commodity to market. Some suggest sending it across the ice-choked Northwest Passage to the U.S. East Coast on supertankers. Others propose a pipeline through western Canada. But most Alaskans are betting on a controversial pipeline that would run the 773 miles to the ice-free port of Valdez on Prince William Sound...