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...attack, code named Operation Volcano, some 70 rebels unsuccessfully stormed government buildings in Phnom Penh, leaving dozens injured and eight people killed. Chhun, who has called Hun Sen's regime a puppet of Communist Vietnam, claimed at the time that the attack was a coup attempt and vowed to strike again. He and his wife also face fraud charges relating to their tax-preparation business...
After the final out, a called third strike against Mann, Harvard shook hands with Missouri and gathered in front of its own dugout for a customary last team meeting...
...good news. In the last at-bat of Mann’s career, with runners waiting on second and third in the bottom of the ninth and a two-out, 14-6 deficit to overcome, the captain struck out to end the game. The final pitch: a called strike on a 3-2 fastball that looked inside. Gracefully, Mann bowed out and shook hands with the opposing team...
...storm, which caused significant damage to the Yard, would go on to cause $1 billion in damages throughout southern New England—the most destructive hurricane to strike the region since the Great New England Hurricane...
...incident, the lieutenant has concluded that in the chaos of battle, at night, and in rough, unfamiliar terrain, the SAS squadron commander wrongly assumed that his men were under attack by al-Qaeda, and believed the only way to save them was to call in an air strike...