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...Phnom-Penh, residents were urged to cut down on their use of petroleum; the city was said to have only a three-day supply of gasoline on hand for private transport. To make matters worse, a fire destroyed one of Phnom-Penh's two electricity generators, blacking out half of the city and stilling the whirling fans and air conditioners in the midst of scorching 95° heat. If the harassing Communist blockade could not be broken, U.S. officials said, food, fuel and ammunition would have to be brought in by a U.S. airlift...
...torture continued for days. Fidel would beat Kasler across the buttocks with a large white truck fan belt until "he tore my rear end to shreds." At one point Fidel said, "You are going to see a delegation if we have to carry you on a stretcher." For one three-day period, Kasler was beaten with the fan belt every hour from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and kept awake at night...
...year's stranger diplomatic episodes. Leaving the latest dollar crisis to subordinates for a while, U.S. Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz last week flew off on an urgent three-day trip to Moscow. He got Kissinger-like treatment: a minimum of protocol, a box at the Bolshoi for Giselle, and a three-hour meeting with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Shultz came to talk trade in general, but he also had an unusual mission: to lobby for the Kremlin's help in a tough struggle that the White House faces with a testy U.S. Congress...
...bronze medal swim by Yntema pushed Harvard's three-day point total to 19--the Crimson's best showing in over a decade--and was the finest individual performance in the nationals by a Harvard swimmer since Bruce Hunter took the 50-yd. freestyle crown...
...Hoosiers three-day point total reached 358, while Tennessee, helped by a USC disqualification in the free relay, pulled away for second with 294 points to USC's 260. The point totals tailed off markedly after the top three, with UCLA holding off Washington for fourth...