Word: tripped
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Dudman, 60, and Becker, 31, were experienced reporters who had covered the Indochina war in both Viet Nam and Cambodia for extended periods. Their 1,000-mile trip through eleven of Cambodia's 19 provinces was clearly an attempt by the Cambodian regime to counteract its worldwide image as a merciless, anonymous and genocidal regime. That image has been fed by the accounts of postrevolutionary life given by thousands of refugees in neighboring Thailand and Viet Nam. Caldwell, a lecturer in Southeast Asian economic history at the University of London, accompanied the reporters as a sympathetic student of Cambodia...
Caldwell was murdered on the last night of the trip, when three armed intruders burst into the guest house where the visitors were quartered. Dudman and Becker luckily escaped the gunfire, but Caldwell was caught in his room and died there. Who the assailants were may never be known, but the Cambodians immediately offered their own theory. Said the Westerners' official guide in Phnom-Penh, Thiounn Prasith: "Our enemies know of the importance of your visit and wanted to show the world that Cambodia could not protect her friends...
...international support against such a Vietnamese assault that Cambodia last week embarked on its oddest scheme yet to end its self-imposed isolation: a twice-weekly six-hour tourist excursion from Bangkok to the exquisite Cambodian temple complex of Angkor Wat, 140 miles northwest of Phnom-Penh. The round trip, arranged in Bangkok by former Thai Foreign Minister Chatichai Choonhavan, costs an unproletarian $225. On the inaugural flight last week was TIME's Hong Kong correspondent, David DeVoss, who reported that "at first security was so tight, visitors spent most of the afternoon at the airport terminal...
After hearing of the trip's cancellation, both men quickly packed their bags and rushed to the airport. "I waited overnight but managed to cram into a plane to Los Angeles the next morning," Cuse said...
...came out really flat. It's too long a trip to be away two weeks," coach Frank McLaughlin said following his squad's seventh straight loss and tenth defeat in 13 games this season...