Word: 139th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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United States warplanes waged air strikes against Cambodia yesterday for the 139th consecutive day since the bombing began in February...
...gloom as for surveys of scientific progress. The proceedings have been repeatedly-and often mindlessly-disrupted by young radicals. They have also been marked by one pessimistic report after another on man's despoliation of his home planet. Last week in Washington, D.C., at the A.A.A.S.'S 139th meeting, scientists were again subjected to dissent and despair, but this time there was also welcome relief in the form of an eloquent defense of prudent technological growth...
...139th Session. Last month, Porter shocked the North Vietnamese by announcing a boycott of the negotiations-a ploy that had always been their specialty. When he returned to the Majestic last week, Porter jousted with the Communists for four straight hours. He warned them against trying any "military adventures" in Indochina, adding that the result could only be "the loss of many more lives." The Communist delegates accused him of not "responding positively" to their proposals, but Porter rasped back that Communists made a practice of turning "proposals into ultimatums, and you are in no position to issue ultimatums...