Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE most wars, the one in Indochina has bred an almost casual brutality. At Mien, a small town northeast of Phnom-Penh where bitter fighting raged two months ago, West German Photographer Dieter Ludwig was present when two Cambodian patrols returned from forays into chest-high rice fields. The first patrol brought in a North Vietnamese prisoner for interrogation (above); he talked freely after the second patrol arrived waving some grisly trophies-the severed heads of other North Vietnamese troops. Some of the Cambodians marked their victory by cutting the livers out of the enemy dead...
...possibility of a Berlin-style airlift for the Cambodian capital. The Communists have not committed the troops needed to pinch off all of its road links at once, but they have hit each often enough to make highway travel risky at best. Northwest of Phnom-Penh on Route 5, rice-laden trucks bound for the city are waylaid fairly frequently. The closing of Route 4 spelled an end to the petroleum supplies that had come by truck from Kompong Som. Some fuel comes up the Mekong by tanker, but not enough to prevent shortages...
Thus Phnom-Penh is not exactly on the ropes. Gasoline prices have risen, rice is up 50%, domestic sugar has disappeared from store shelves, and the supply of Cambodian beer has dried up, because the only brewery is situated in Kompong Som. Still, champignons a la Grecque, cóte de boeuf and a respectable Beaujolais can still be had in the city's good French restaurants. Because of a curfew-and power shutdowns to save generator fuel-Phnom-Penh's bars now close by 8 or 9 p.m. As a result, the capital's numerous ladies...
...Died. I. Rice Pereira, 63, noted abstractionist painter; in Marbella, Spain. She once described her style as a system that seeks "plastic equivalents for the revolutionary discoveries in mathematics, physics, biochemistry and radioactivity." Her cool paintings were made up of carefully plotted blocks, lines and dashes in endless variations. She reached her peak in the early '50s, when she was known for her geometric patterns painted on sheets of fluted and rippled glass, which were then placed one on top of the other so that refracted light jabbed through in a dazzling spectrum...
Continental Air Service, a subsidiary to Continental Airlines in the States, has established a beachhead. Continental drops arms, ammunition, and rice and transports troops on contract to the CIA in Laos. It expects such business in Cambodia as well. Although it has only a few planes right now in Cambodia, its director says that they have their full stock in Laos to draw from, and that things will pick up once the aid request is passed...