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The world's most visible guerrillas are probably the Palestinians. They can hardly be described as "urban" in the desert camps from which they attack Israeli border settlements, and their attempts at sabotaging Israeli cities have been notably unsuccessful. But the fedayeen have scored a major triumph of sorts with...
Toward that end, Lon Nol three weeks ago launched his government's first large-scale offensive military action since seizing power. A 5,000-man force, borne by trucks and civilian buses, set out to clear a 50-mile stretch of Route 6 to Kompong Thorn, whose overland links...
At almost that same moment, Arab hijackers were seizing control of yet another plane. A Swissair DC-8 was over France on its way from Zurich to New York when French ground controllers were surprised to hear a woman speaking on the Swissair frequency. "Swissair Flight 100 is in our...
Buck-Passing. The trouble began at dawn on Monday when 200 prisoners seized five guards and held them hostage behind a barricade of mattresses, bedsprings and chairs until their grievances were heard. After city and prison officials heard the complaints-overcrowding, filthy cells, guard brutality -the hostages were released unharmed...
NOW that all U.S. troops have left Cambodia, a thorny question remains: Can the country long survive without their presence? In the past four months, the 40,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in Cambodia have spilled out of the sanctuaries, seizing more than half of Cambodia's...