Word: attack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Magic Kerchief TIME Correspondent Robert Anson was the first newsman to enter Siem Reap after the Communist attack was blunted. Some of the fiercest fighting of the two-day battle, he reported, involved a Viet Cong attack on the high school, where more than 200 recently inducted 16-and 17-year-old boys and girls were garrisoned. A Cambodian officer who remained in radio contact with the group throughout a night filled with thundering mortar fire and the clatter of machine guns, said the terrified students cried into the radio "like a baby crying at night for its mother...
...Communist attack opened suddenly with a fiery burst of 60-and 81-mm. mortar fire that jolted the residents of Thanh My and two nearby hamlets out of their sleep at 1:30 a.m. one night last week. Many of the shells were white-phosphorous ones that set fire to the flimsy huts...
...hamlets were heavily damaged, and Thanh My was virtually destroyed. At least 114 inhabitants died in the raid in the worst Communist massacre since the deathly days of the 1968 Tet attacks. The survivors wandered dazedly through the smoldering ruins of their homes. One old dwarf carried two severed hands wrapped in paper-all that he could find of his twelve-year-old son, who was in one of the bunkers. Even as the people of Thanh My mourned their dead, the women of a village controlled by the Viet Cong only a few miles away showed up to carry...
...values-the myths and institutions with which civilization consoles itself and explains the unexplain-able-are everywhere under attack and crumbling. Bereft of their support, says May, contemporary man faces a deeply disturbing alternative. He must either look to himself for the meaning of life, or he must decide that he and life have no meaning. All too readily, man takes the latter course...
Died. Dr. Abraham Maslow, 62, eminent psychologist and author noted for his pioneering work on humanistic psychology; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif. Maslow's revolutionary theories, published in such books as Motivation and Personality and Psychology of Science, pointed the way toward encounter-group psychotherapy...