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...Cham fall and dispatched Major General Sar Hor, the highly regarded Minister of Veteran Affairs, to take charge of its defenses. Nonetheless, the insurgents steadily advanced. Using American 105-mm. howitzers captured last month from fleeing government troops, they massively shelled the city, rendering Kompong Cham's airport useless. Government supplies and reinforcements had to be brought in by boat convoy, helicopter or air drop. By midweek, antigovernment gunners had zeroed in so closely on helicopter landing pads that many pilots could not land. The advance was so rapid that two C-130s erroneously dropped 28 tons of government...
...give a damn about their sleep! We're going to execute the hostages right away!" "Listen to me," begged the ambassador. "You're getting upset unnecessarily. The French government and we are in entire agreement. The only thing missing is the plane." "All these words are useless," the gunmen yelled back. "We are going to start snooting in a few seconds, and the French women will be the first to be executed...
...There can't be a great emphasis on intercollegiate sports." Watson said when asked if a "basketball palace" was being planned. "We have to consider the possibility that in 25 years, there may be no intercollegiate sports at all. We don't want to get stuck with a useless facility. We have been juggling several different interests, and have been talking to the Planning Commission, the graduate schools, a whole host of people. We'll have to satisfy all of them before we'll move ahead...
...paraphrase Chief Justice Marshall, if it be apparent that the tapes are irrelevant to the investigation, or that for State reasons they cannot be introduced into the case, the subpoena duces tecum would be useless. But if this be not apparent, if they may be important in the investigation, if they may be safely heard by the grand jury, if only in part, would it not be a blot on the page which records the judicial proceedings of this country, if, in a case of such serious import as this, the court did not at least call for an inspection...
...almost always exempted. As borrowers have been discovering since the federal Truth in Lending law took effect in 1969, they pay as much as 20% on loans from finance companies and even 36% annual interest on mail-order loans. So long as such rates are permitted, usury laws are useless and should be scrapped...