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...with it, the U.S.-backed government of ailing President Lon Nol. Whether or not it falls, there is no question that the situation is more desperate than ever before. The Cambodian forces have already exhausted the $275 million in U.S. military aid they were granted this year and have scant hope of getting the additional $222 million President Ford is asking Congress to authorize (see box next page). Meanwhile, as the threat of starvation increased throughout the capital, the U.S. stepped up a civilian airlift of ammunition and food into Phnom-Penh from neighboring Thailand and South Viet...
...that Israel is not likely to offer much to Syria before Geneva, particularly since it is more difficult to negotiate territorial adjustment on the Golan Heights than on the broad Sinai desert. Kissinger, who had hoped to keep the Syrians soothed until he could finish Israeli-Egyptian negotiations, got scant help last week from Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Visiting settlements built on the Golan Heights after the 1967 war, Rabin stressed their security value for Israel and added: "We did not build settlements here in order to evacuate them...
...believe that the critical challenge today is to ensure a good education for all. Few whites I believe would object to integration or even busing itself, if its purpose and result were the best possible education rather than the futile shuffling of students from one school to another with scant prospect of a meaningful educational experience in either...
...scant five swimmers will carry Radcliffe's slim hopes for glory against the best swimmers in the East coast when the second leg in the National Championships trilogy gets under way today in Philadelphia...
...last-place finish of highly touted diver Mike Guzewicz in the first one-meter diving competition while Harvard's Dave English won the event in his first home meet of the year. English also took first in the second one-meter event as he beat out Guzewicz by a scant 20/100 of a point. The second competition featured one of the finest diving exhibitions of the year as the top three divers each scored over 270 points...