Word: affair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary Cy Vance and General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, weekending in Newport, R.I., got a hurry-up call and rushed back to the capital. For 45 minutes the President and his aides discussed the attack, decided to play the whole affair as low-key as possible in the hope that it was all some sort of misunderstanding on the part of the Communist Viet Minh government at Hanoi. Accordingly, the Pentagon issued a dry statement: The Maddox, "while on routine patrol in international waters," had undergone an "unprovoked attack by three...
...past month, the price of Windfall's stock soared from 56? a share to $5.70. Then the bubble burst, damaging thousands of investors, badly depressing the penny stock market and involving one of Canada's most unusual women. Last week two official investigations of the Windfall affair were launched...
...What One May. For months he had been planning to call a conference of Communist parties in order to thresh out the ideological split in the international Communist movement. But be fore he could even send off his invitations, Peking further complicated the whole affair by refusing to attend and promising to keep off the list of invited guests its allies in the ever-growing Sino-Soviet squabble...
...Family Affair. Rhadamés was picked up on an extradition warrant at the request of a Swiss court. The complainant is not the Dominican government, which has its own extradition proceedings under way. The accusers are members of the Trujillo clan itself-precisely which ones, the lawyers were not saying. But the talk around the Dominican Republic suggested a daughter of the dictator's first marriage, Flor de Oro, and Trujillo's second wife, Bienvenida Ricardo, both believed to be in Montreal; two children, Rafael and Yolanda, born to longtime mistress, Lina Lovatón, all three...
...Kurdish mother and a Turkish father who belonged to the nomadic Kocerli tribe (hence the nickname), Kocero was born 38 years ago in a tiny, ten-house village. For a while he was poor but straight, but in 1950 he killed his brother-in-law in an "affair of honor," stole more than $250 in lire and gold coins and fled for the hills. From then on, Kocero virtually ruled what few roads there were in the southeast. In a single day, he and his band of five or six men looted 200 people by halting one bus after another...