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...waiting for the signal to open their long-awaited dry-season offensive in South Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Communist units deeper inside Cambodia opened their own offensive. In midweek, a force of Communist artillerymen, perhaps no more than 200 strong, struck the capital with a devastating, 90-minute rocket and mortar barrage...
Nothing Left. By the Cambodian government's count, no fewer than 115 rocket and mortar rounds fell on the city and nearby Pochentong Airport, which had been the target of another well-planned attack 15 months...
...think it would be one of the most bloodless means to effect a rad ical change." Oldenburg's response took the form of a vast red lipstick which telescoped up and down, stiff ening and softening, from Caterpillar tracks. It was polemical, a mixture of cosmetic, phallus and rocket carrier - the ultimate weapon. The fate of this work was as appropriate as its original message: removed from the Yale cam pus, it now lies disintegrating in a Connecticut factory yard, along with the Yippies' fantasies of instant revolution...
Harvard went ahead 2-0 in the first period on goals by Bobby McManama and Bobby Goodenow, but Proulx didn't have much to do with either one. At 1:36 McManama was all alone to collect the rebound of a Dave Hynes rocket that bounced off of the plexiglass out in front of the cage...
...February. Shortly before President Nixon flies off on his historic visit to China, all hell suddenly breaks loose in South Viet Nam. From the DMZ to the Delta, North Vietnamese troops raid towns, rocket cities, throw Saigon's forces into confusion. In the vulnerable Central Highlands, the Communists capture the inland city of Kontum and then sweep on to the seacoast, slicing the country...