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...first Khmer Rouge soldiers arrived. They were smiling and friendly, and the euphoria lasted for several hours. Only later did foreigners and city dwellers alike realize that these first soldiers were actually members of a 200-man private band led by a daredevil freelance general, Hem Keth Dara, 29, and not really part of the Khmer Rouge at all. They were quickly replaced by tough, disciplined soldiers, heavily laden with arms, who swept through the city with loudspeakers. "Leave your homes immediately!" they ordered. When their instructions were not quickly obeyed, the soldiers sometimes punctuated them with random rifle shots...
...Baghdad and the dissident Kurds of the north, who claim ownership of the Kirkuk oilfield, which has been shut down ever since it was nationalized. "If there is to be a stoppage of national development, you can be sure the Kurds will be the first to feel it," said Dara Towfik, editor of the Baghdad-based Kurdish paper Al Ta'Khee, last week. Besides complaining that they have been shortchanged on development funds, Kurds feel that Baghdad has cheated on the terms of their truce. Kurd Leader Mustafa Barzani worked out an agreement with Baghdad two years ago that...
...aides had to brush off the confetti as he pulled up at the city hall for the Marseillaise and a word from Mayor George Christopher. Returning from a chilly tour of San Francisco Bay aboard a Coast Guard gunboat, he was greeted by nine-year-old Brownie Scout Dara Woods, her bare knees knocking in the cold. Gallantly, the general bent like a great, gawky crane to accept a bouquet of flowers. "Merci,'' he said. "Thank you." And hours later, as he finished a speech at the Civic Auditorium, the visitor was still stirred with emotion. He spread...
...with the cattle. The government sells the milk for them at a commission, expects the project will pay for itself in 35 years. Production is on the way up in the seven farm units already operating at Aarey. Ten more units will be opened this month. Eventually, Milk Commissioner Dara Khurody, Desai's partner in the project, hopes to build an agricultural college at Aarey...
Though Editor Martin, who suffered from malaria, retired for a few years to build up his health, there was no dearth of energetic contributors. From the magazine's point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...