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During the climactic years of the Viet Nam War, the Communist forces crossed the Cambodian border and established a whole network of secret bases, which they relied on to shelter and resupply their troops. To attack these "sanctuaries," the U.S. bombed the Cambodian countryside, then launched an armored "incursion" into the once neutral nation. Now a book by William Shawcross, who covered the war for the Sunday Times of London from 1970 to 1972, challenges that U.S. policy and charges that it contributed to the Communist takeover...
...excitement," she says, "about the possibility that we're going to have a change of this kind." Later, in a mood of introspection, the woman whom the Russians have dubbed "the Iron Lady" summed herself up by saying: "I am what I am-it's the whole personality. I happen to be a woman. I have no experience of the alternative...
...like me/ but I am just like them/ pickin' a crazy apple off a stem/ Givin' it to the married men." The Roches' songs, which come out of a very particular and womanly conscience, are feminist after the fact. Says Terre, "I missed the whole new consciousness thing." Her sister Suzzy, 22, adds simply, "We're women who make our own music...
Carter's tax approach will help ensure that many kinds of companies, small as well as large, and industries besides oil will get a chance to test daring ideas. Oil companies should not be encouraged to try to dominate, or monopolize, whole new alternative-energy industries that come into being to compete with petroleum. In such esoteric fields as the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity and the extraction of gas from sea water and oil from coal, companies in other industries?electronics, mining, shipbuilding?have as much expertise as the oil industry and, in some cases, more...
...response is that the oil companies are trying to do a number on us." Even a high-ranking General Motors executive in Detroit remarks: "The whole thing smells funny...