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...existed from the sixth to the eighth century), 20,000 Cambodian troops set out last August to lift ; 15-month siege of Kompong Thorn, 78 miles north of the capital on Route 6. By October, the main force had reached that objective, but in the meantime had left troops strung out in perilously thin numbers along the road. The North Vietnamese counterattacked at the town of Rumlong, 30 miles south of Kompong Thorn on Route 6, an important crossroads for the eastward flow of supplies on which the Communist forces in eastern Cambodia depend...
...better when an actor responds like a child -fast. For the short haul, I find a maniac more interesting than someone in control." Still, he is the first to admit in his best hangdog manner that it is too late for a lifelong mutt to become a high-strung thoroughbred. As he says in one of his lines in Prisoner: "Miracles don't happen when you're 47. When Moses saw the burning bush, he must have been...
...latest episode of the ongoing series Richard Harris v. the Elements, our hero appeared as a white man taken captive by a cantankerous band of Sioux Indians. He was abused, mocked, beaten, left to scrounge for himself outside the tepees, and finally strung up by his nipples. Impressed by his tenacity, and the resilience of his pectorals, the Sioux initiated him into the tribe...
...include the electrical workers, the rubber workers and the machinists. Their feelings were vented at length and with loudness at last week's AFL-CIO convention. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers passed out pamphlets showing a man wearing imported clothes and headlined: HOW TO DRESS FOR A DEPRESSION. Banners strung up at Bal Harbour's Hotel Americana urged union members...
...habits-bitchiness and dope. After leading Marcus a merry chase from Venice to New York City and back again, she gives him the slip. He returns to the U.S. and settles down in an apartment in New Jersey, of all places, to try to forget. Jenny, by now badly strung out on heroin, finds him and does her balancing act once more -this time on his balcony. He rescues her, she has hysterics. To quiet her he gives her another shot of smack, which kills...