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...sure, but most experts think not. The insurgents have burnt entire villages that they have captured; there are reliable reports that Khmer Rouge troops have killed and strung up scores of civilians in areas they have "liberated." (Both sides have treated prisoners brutally.) On the other hand, the rebels' clandestine radio promises that only Lon Nol and six of his top colleagues ("the seven traitorous chieftains") would be executed; all others who cooperate with the new government have been assured of pardons. If the capital falls, the U.S. is prepared to evacuate the regime's top leaders...
Unfortunately, Katmandu's new electric-trolley line, the first in South Asia, was not finished in time for the celebration. But colored lights were strung like necklaces across the trees and temples of the capital, and fountains were brilliantly illuminated. Western hippies, who for years have regarded Katmandu as a kind of real-life Shangrila, were banished for the occasion; stray dogs were poisoned...
...abroad." These 50 or so men, he believes, are not art dealers but organizers of what amounts to theft-for-investment. They commission thefts, receive the goods, wait for them to cool (for years, if need be) and then discreetly launder them through a network of "honest" art dealers strung between Switzerland, Germany...
Night arrives and the Young Eternal Souls from St. Louis replace Professor George Wald at the microphone. Two kids spray-paint a sidewalk red and blue. It is too dark to read their message. The Commons is sodded with cans, lunchbags, styrofoam cups and leaflets. The trees are strung with red, white and blue lights, with some green ones over by Park Street...
...years in the Medicine section, interviewed pioneer blood-pressure researcher Dr. John Laragh, our cover subject, and pored over such weighty medical tomes as Laragh's 900-page Hypertension Manual. Notes Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story: "Hypertension sounds like a disease of nervous, high-strung individuals. Many people are embarrassed to admit that they have it. We'd like to clear away some of the misconceptions...