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...event last week was a three-day celebration of both the Communist victory and the birthday of Ho Chi Minh. All schools, hospitals and families displayed pictures of Ho as well as flags of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and North Viet Nam. Hanoi dispatched a prestigious delegation to take part in the festivities, including Politburo Member Le Due Tho and North Vietnamese President Ton Due Thang. Also making their first appearances in Saigon since the Communist victory were civilian leaders like non-Communist Nguyen Huu Tho, chairman of the P.R.G. Advisory Council...
...almost a year, O'Neill has continued to expand his vision with imaginative new details. He has become so convincing an advocate that this month, at a three-day conference in Princeton, 100 scientists, engineers, international lawyers and social scientists agreed that space colonization is not only possible but eminently feasible. They even discussed such basic questions as what kind of meat the colonists will eat (the conferees were told that rabbits, chickens and pigs would be easier to raise in space than cattle) and what types of legal and social structures might be set up in their extraterrestrial...
...many as 1,300 refugees were crowded into the compound, and it was not long before many of the foreigners began squabbling over the little food and few comforts available. That dissension continued up to the end of their three-day journey by truck to Thailand. Concluded Schanberg: "If the Communists were looking for reasons to expel us as unfit and unsuited to live in a simple Asian society, we gave them ample demonstration...
...week's end the new leaders began a three-day victory celebration and a week of mourning for those killed in the war. But no solid clues were forthcoming about future plans or policies. About all that filtered through the curtain was a statement by Samphan in his radio address that "we will be neutral and nonaligned." Yet Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge's figurehead leader, said in Peking that within a year or two most of Southeast Asia would be Communist or proCommunist, and that one of the Khmer Rouge's first tasks must...
...Personnel Office last week revoked the last day of a three-day disciplinary suspension against Sherman L. Holcombe, a cook in Currier House dining hall and shop steward of all Quadrangle House dining halls...