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Luanda Angois--One week before the ship anchored in Luanda harbor, the city had convulsed in its second summer riot which left over a hundred people dead. From the ship you could see the black smudge in Luanda's tin-and-plywood suburban shack jungle that used to be four blocks of homes. Everywhere you went in Luanda there were jeeps, carrying soldiers, carrying guns. Portugal had been fighting a guerilla war since 1961 in Angola, a Portuguese colony since the 1500's. That war had one good result: the young Portuguese soldiers sent to Angola came back disgusted...
...appearance at 2:20 p.m. (3:20 a.m. in Washington) of a Cambodian gunboat. It fired machine gun bullets and a rocket across the freighter's bow and forced her to stop. Radio Operator Wilbert Bock got off a last distress call. Then the Cambodians apparently located the radio shack and the radio fell silent. But the last message was picked up in Indonesia by agents of the ship's owner and relayed to the State Department in Washington...
...through which we slipped into the Katmandu Valley." He has since reported on coronations of two other Himalayan monarchs, the Kings of Bhutan and Sikkim. Over the years, the Shangri-la quality of the mountain kingdoms has been diminished by the encroachment of Western civilization. "The one-room thatch shack that was the airport building at Katmandu's Gauchar Airport is long gone," Shepherd reports, "and the red brick complex that replaced it even has a duty-free shop." Communications, too, have improved, and the remote monarchies have learned the uses of American-style public relations. On this visit...
...their locks. Fifteen years later the neighbors still hate the guy, and especially when they see out-of-state license plates (the people who bring him Philip Roth books?) flash by on the way up to his house. Who knows what goes on up there? A man in the shack next door to the Sizemores killed himself and no one but the insects noticed for several days. This is a place that could use a little peer pressure...
Lady Cops. Meanwhile, Southern California, historic turf of the private eye, will have two new operatives. On ABC, ex-Cop Harry O (played by former Fugitive David Janssen) will work out of a shack on the beach. In NBC'S The Rockford Files, James Garner will become pretty much of a contemporary embodiment of his old sharp-talking Maverick self...