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...refusing to commit Cambodia to either the Communist or anti-Communist camps, Sihanouk has long antagonized cold warriors on both sides. One day he may remark that "Communism is inevitable in Asia. When? Oh, not tomorrow. The Chinese don't think in years, not even in lustrums. They have time with them." The next day he may complain that Chinese children in Cambodia's schools "bring in Mao Tse-tung's books and carry out all types of subversive activities...
...study did find that male students were more likely to commit suicide than female and that "suicidal students dated less often and had less sexual experience than nonsuicidal students...
Three other enlisted men of Medina's company were charged last week with various offenses at My Lai, including rape, murder and assault with intent to commit murder, bringing the number of men officially accused so far to ten. They include one other officer, Captain Thomas K. Willingham, who was in charge of a platoon in another company operating about two miles from Medina's group during the assault. Five other men still in the service are under investigation, as are 22 members of Medina's company who are now civilians. The Army and the Justice Department...
Ambiguous Isaiah. Some clarifications are bound to be controversial. "Thou shalt not kill" has become "you shall not commit murder"-thus depriving some pacifists of their principal Old Testament support. But the translators maintain that their reading is closer to the original Hebrew. There may be less quarrel with the N.E.B. rendering of Isaiah 7: 14, which in the King James Version ("a virgin shall conceive") had clearly prefigured the Virgin birth of Christ. Now, the meaning is more ambiguous: "A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel." But the R.S.V...
They reported that because there were not enough SDS representatives to commit their organization's participation, another women caucus would be held to night to finalize plans...