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...STARVING CAMBODIANS who are trying by the thousands to flee their country attest to the monumental tragedy that has decimated that Southeast Asian people since the terrorist regime of Pol Pot took power in 1975. Reports from the few Western journalists and relief workers who have entered Cambodia in recent months indicate that the suffering continues under the present Vietnam-dominated Heng Samrin government, which overthrew Pol Pot earlier this year...
...whole political future of the Begin regime. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres immediately called for Begin himself to resign and hold new elections. Although Begin is highly unlikely to take that course, his position is seriously weakened. Not only does Dayan have a considerable personal following, but other recent defections have narrowed the parliamentary majority of Begin's patchwork conservative Likud coalition from 78 to 63 out of 120 seats...
...Kremlinologists pointed out that Brezhnev had not been seen in public since his return to Moscow two weeks ago from a state visit to East Germany. There observers had been shocked by the Soviet leader's shuffling walk, slurred speech and a paralyzed left cheek that suggested a recent stroke...
...some 1.6 billion miles out there. Science now has an electron microscope that can magnify 20 million times and so can photograph a particle with a diameter of about 4 billionths of an inch. Computers can do 80 million calculations a second (and ostensibly 6.9 trillion a day). Other recent news: a suspicion that the proton, a basic natural building block, may be unstable. It may indeed be decaying at such a rate that it would peter out in a million billion billion billion years. The effect of that notion is finally not mathematical but purely poetic...
Intelligence and military leaders had good reason to believe that Park's increasing political and social repression was alenating both American and domestic support, Reischauer said, adding that the recent student riots were "really extraordinary" and reflected the growing dissatisfaction of the educated public...