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Within Range. Cambodia, meanwhile, continued to stagger under the weight of its own battle with the Communists. Phnom-Penh, once the most carefree capital in Southeast Asia, was filled with grim and eerie rumors (see box). Throughout the countryside, the fighting was somewhat less intense than usual. Scattered clashes were...
Untenable Position. To the southeast and southwest, other raids cut off Phnom-Penh from Kompong Som (formerly Sihanoukville), the country's only deep-water seaport and site of its sole oil refinery. As a result, the capital was down to about two weeks' supply of fuel. Another serious...
I can almost envy that necessity as I sit here with a dozen books scattered over my desk, a sales slip marking the first or second or fourth page of each of them.
About a quarter of the summer students come from Harvard and Radcliffe. The majority attend colleges scattered across the country; about 60 students will leave Harvard in eight weeks to return to high schools as students, while about 800 of their fellow students go back to high school teaching positions...
While not quite an icebreaker, the fight for Siem Reap certainly required a lot of fast skating. After Communist forces launched assaults against the town and its modern airport four miles to the northwest, the government committed nine battalions, including a full brigade of paratroopers, one of the few elite...