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...Given continued U.S. and South Vietnamese air support, observers believe, the Cambodian army should be able to hold its own. An illustration of both the Cambodians' newfound staving power and the effectiveness of allied air support, reports TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud, was the victory at the town of Prey Totung (pop. 6,000), which lies midway between Kompong Cham and Skoun on Route Seven...
...night of Dec. 11, a force of as many as 3,000 Communist soldiers struck at Prey Totung. They quickly seized the center of town and drove the 400 Cambodian soldiers there into the schoolyard, where they remained, surrounded and cut off, for five days. "Most of the time we could not even lift our heads," says Lieut. Colonel Srey Yar, the competent young local commander...
...ended, Cambodian and South Vietnamese columns finally succeeded in reopening Route Seven between Kompong Cham and Skoun, which had been cut by enemy activity for six weeks. But the Cambodians expected the fighting to continue in the area for the duration of the dry season. In the case of Prey Totung itself, however, there was not much left to fight for. "The Cambodians once again had demonstrated great courage," sadly concludes Correspondent Cloud, "but the town had been destroyed. One wondered: Who wins in the long...
...wings," like those of the modern flying squirrel. They used those wings for gliding round their arboreal habitats and dodging foes. The other theory says that birds evolved from ground-dwelling reptiles that grew similar membranes, helping them to take increasingly longer leaps after insects and other fast-moving prey...
...fossils. It was the faint imprint of a horny sheath-or fingernail-like covering-on the three claws protruding from each of the wings of these ancient birds. Resembling the talons of a contemporary eagle, these razor-sharp, miniature scythes were obviously better suited for catching and slicing up prey than for scampering up the trunks of trees. Thus, Ostrom suggests, Archaeopteryx's lizard-like forebears probably launched themselves into the air from the ground-not from the limbs of ancient trees...