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...swiftly since the invasion by South Vietnamese and U.S. troops in May-1970. In an operation dubbed Chenla 11 (named after a Khmer kingdom that 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...
Chicago's Review has spawned a host of imitators, including the Philadelphia Journalism Review, St. Louis Journalism Review, Review of Southern California Journalism (Long Beach), Hawaii Journalism Review, Rhode Island's Journalists Newsletter, Thorn ("A Connecticut Valley Media Review") and The Unsatisfied Man (Denver). None so far has had the impact of Chicago's Review...
...past two years, tomorrow's Harvard-Penn match should be determined at the middle position. "Harvard's strength is clearly in their depth." Penn coach Al Malloy said. "That's the thorn in our claw...
...drowning after falling in his bathtub; in Mexico City. Known as "the Red Colonel," Arbenz was elected President in 1950 after the murder of his anti-Communist rival, Francisco Arana; once in office, Arbenz expropriated U.S. property, opened relations with Communist-bloc nations and generally established himself as a thorn in the U.S. side-so much so that in 1954 a CIA-supported force routed Arbenz's forces. The tactic was so successful that some observers believe it led the U.S. to try an encore in the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's Cuba...
Another source of malaise is surfeit with politics, a turn toward personalism. Says Thorn Pringle, 29, an Indianan with degrees in engineering and business administration now living on Spain's Costa del Sol: "I don't want to fight America's problems. I'm too busy with...