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...million residents of refugee-swollen Phnom-Penh heeded this appeal last week by the clandestine radio of the Khmer Insurgents. Although artillery and rocket attacks on the Cambodian capital have already killed an estimated 340 civilians and wounded another 800 since last December, the inevitability of a rebel ground attack on the city in the near future seems far from certain. Since the current dry-season offensive began, the forces of Cambodian President Lon Nol have blunted three separate attempts by the Communist-led guerrillas to drive into the capital...
Last week the Russians disclosed that the first two craft had reached their destination. One of the ships, Mars 5, went into orbit around Mars, they reported, but the other, Mars 4, soared past it into deep space. Reason: Its braking rocket failed to fire...
Honeywell continues to seek and gain arms contracts; new contracts made for 1973 and 1974 included provisions to manufacture delay fuses for Air Force M-117 bombs, the BLU-26/B "guava bomb," the Rockeye bomb, rocket targeting systems, infra-red sensors used in the electronic battlefield, and a "thin wall fragmentation mechanism." Honeywell takes the profits from these contracts, and when challenged on its responsibility for overseas murder, says, as in 1972, "The ultimate decision as to types and quantities of weapons to be available and used must be the responsibility of the Department of Defense." This disclaimer could...
With artillery and rocket attacks now almost daily occurrences, foreigners have begun to flee the city. British and Australian dependents have already departed. A gathering of French residents at their embassy's cultural center ended in fistfights over the limited supply of evacuation air tickets. Rumors that the insurgents had begun infiltrating the capital swept through the city's crowded slums, terrifying the populace...
...have seen, and heard, much of the cockney impudence before now," Ruskin told a gallery director, "but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for slinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a celebrated libel trial, during which the painting (The Falling Rocket) was exhibited upside down, the 44-year-old Whistler argued that his asking price was for the knowledge of a lifetime. Whistler won the case-and was granted one farthing in damages...