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...dead of night last week, 60 Laotians stealthily cast off from the Thailand shore of the Mekong River in motor-powered pirogues. They were led by General Thao Ma, 42, onetime commander of the Royal Lao Air Force, who has lived in Thai exile since his 1966 abortive attempt to overthrow the Laotian government. After disembarking at the outskirts of Vientiane, the rebels rendezvoused with about 60 more sympathizers. A coup against Laos' neutralist leader, Prince Souvanna Phouma, had begun...
...Howard, an assistant to then Presidential Counsel Charles W. Colson, fired off a memo to John Dean asking him to go to bat for Rodgers at the Justice Department. Rodgers was never prosecuted. He is currently recuperating from a heart attack at Southwind, his estate on Maryland's Eastern Shore, but expects to be subpoenaed in the Agnew investigation soon...
Anne W. Simon, a slim and well-tanned divorcee who cares passionately about her view over the wild grapevines on the shore of Martha's Vineyard, returned home one day to find that someone had dumped a truckload of cigarette butts all over her front lawn. The truck had then been driven back and forth across the lawn, gouging deep ruts and tearing down a row of small pine trees and bushes...
Working in the backyard of a retired Antioch drama professor, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, the Otrabandists assembled a raft by strapping flooring and two-by-fours to twelve 50-gallon drums donated by a local company. They added a canoe to trail behind for occasional jaunts to shore, then trucked the whole caboodle to St. Louis and launched The River Raft Revue-"at the world's most popular price: free!!" (The National Endowment grant of $15,000 is enough to cover expenses and possibly provide $25 per week in salary for each actor...
...Suddenly I realized the race was over, and that we were going the wrong way. But you know what happens when you drop your oar? It may throw you out of the boat. Well, finally I did drop my oar, and I've been trying to swim to shore ever since-through a lot of muck...