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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Winding through narrow jungle roads, a platoon of Thailand's crack 1st Cavalry Battalion was caught last month in the bloodiest ambush yet staged by the country's Communist insurgents. Twenty-two of the unit's 26 men were quickly cut down in a fusillade of rocket grenades and heavy machine-gun fire. Seizing the platoon's weapons and ammunition, the Communists set the dead bodies afire with gasoline, then slipped back into their jungle cover...
...hard to argue, if anyone does, that statehood would profit the rest of the United States. The system of tax incentives and cheap labor that has attracted investors up to now would have to go; there are no grounds for supposing the economy would improve, except through some massive welfare program. Per capita income in Puerto Rico is about $2300, while in Mississippi, the poorest state, it is over $4000. Though every state contains pockets of misery that are worse off, no single administrative unit is so depressed. The island's geographic isolation would make any renewed private investment unlikely...
Between his release from Hussein's prison in 1973 and his arrest this month in Paris, Abu Daoud's doings have been murkier than ever. He apparently has concentrated on diplomatic chores for the P.L.O., part of the time in Baghdad. But Daoud also commanded a Palestinian unit that fought with Moslem leftists in Beirut during the Lebanon civil war. Partly because he dropped out of terrorist work and partly because they think he is still working for the Jordanians, Israeli intelligence insists that he is no longer a prime target. "We don't kill spies...
What makes Ralph and Linnea Grebmeier notable is not just that they are man and wife but that the beat they pound is a family business. A member of San Francisco's freewheeling "Patrol Special" unit, Ralph Grebmeier paid $15,000 for the right to guard one of the city's 62 private patrol sectors-a two-mile-long swath that runs from the Golden Gate Bridge to Fisherman's Wharf. In return, he and his wife now collect $750 per week from 89 clients...
...eager to set up a CB antenna atop his home near Chicago that they failed to notice a nearby power line. When the antenna brushed against the high-voltage wire, Bruce's two friends were electrocuted, and he was burned so severely that doctors at the burn unit of Chicago's Cook County Hospital had to amputate his legs and an arm. But their treatment saved Bruce's life, and now, fitted with prosthetic devices, he is taking golf lessons...