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Unnerved by the concentration of firepower, many of Ampil's 5,000 defenders, all members of the anti-Communist Khmer People's National Liberation Front (K.P.N.L.F.), broke and ran. Some managed to regroup for counterattacks, but eventually most of the lightly armed guerrillas scrambled to safety across the Thai border. Within 36 hours last week, the Vietnamese had mopped up all significant resistance at Ampil, in the process sending small detachments of regular troops across the ill- defined Thai border. At one point, a Vietnamese officer walked up to a Thai army checkpoint to inquire where the frontier was. During...
...been blamed for the deaths of as many as 2 million of the country's 6 million people between 1975 and 1978, many Kampucheans fought back against the Vietnamese invasion as best they could. Some 500,000 civilians and several thousand guerrillas took refuge in camps close to the Thai border. Year after year, the Vietnamese attacked the resistance centers during the dry season and fell back when the rains came. This year the Communist Khmer Rouge counterattacked during the rainy season, moving deep into Kampuchea and harassing Vietnamese troops and supply lines...
...Natural History in New York City this week. The exhibit, which travels to Los Angeles in March, is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and the National Museum of Thailand, both of which organized the major dig at the site in 1974-75. During the excavation, archaeologists and Thai officials battled looting and cave-ins to extract artifacts from the 62-acre mound...
President Reagan not only advocates school prayer, he calls those who oppose him intolerant. One might argue with equal plausibility that on this issue his opponents are more tolerant: after all, a cardinal principle of toleration is thai Ihe practice of religion should be free and uncoerced, a situation that hardly obtains in the third grade. Many who oppose school prayer support a moment of silence as a serious, denominationally neutral alternative. Is William Rusher, the outspoken conservative publisher of National Review, intolerant of religion because he supports a moment of silence? By questioning the religious, indeed the constitutional, bona...
...most impressive examples of a Third World country that has made progress in curbing population growth is Thailand (pop. 49 million). In the past three decades, the Thai birth rate has declined by nearly 40%, from 46.6 per 1,000 people to 28.6. The population growth rate has dropped from about 3.4% to 1.95%. One reason for the change is a determined effort to extend health care and family planning to rural areas. Thailand has more than 4,000 village health centers staffed with 220,000 paramedics in addition to village doctors and local assistant midwives. One Thai private group...