Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spangled blue silk ribbon and bronze star of the Medal of Honor around the necks of a soldier, a sailor, a Marine and an Air Force pilot. >Army Specialist Five Charles C. Hagemeister, 21, has the kind of bravery that often prompts Viet Cong snipers to single out the aid man as he moves to wounded comrades. Hagemeister raced through machine-gun fire when his platoon was ambushed in central Viet Nam in March 1967. He defended the wounded with a borrowed rifle, killing four attackers and silencing a machine gun. Summoning help, he dragged the injured men to safety...
...Young, 38, was attempting to evacuate an embattled Army scout team deep inside Viet Cong country in November when his "Jolly Green Giant" rescue helicopter was raked by automatic weapons and exploded in flames. His clothes afire, Young was severely burned. Disregarding his own injuries, he gave first aid to a stunned survivor from the wreck, then waved off rescuers after spotting an enemy flak trap. Drifting in and out of shock for 17 hours, Young hobbled and crawled six miles to a clearing before signaling for help...
...testified that he did not know exactly what the money was to be used for, and even the official Soviet history of Czechoslovakia published in 1960 did not accuse Masaryk, a gentle, scholarly man, of plotting to kill Lenin. The charge was clearly a clumsy canard thrown in to aid Moscow's psychological warfare being waged against the Dubcek regime...
...political tensions that triggered the 1965 revolution. From the rich rice fields in the north and the green, leafy mountain towns of the west to downtown Santo Domingo, Balaguer has launched an ambitious renovation of the Dominican Republic and its morale, helped along by $45 million in U.S. aid. New warehouses are sprouting up along the capital's Ozama River, replacing those burned down in the bitter fighting three years ago. More than 80% of the capital's buildings and homes have been repainted in gleaming whites, blues, roses and mustard yellows. In the northwestern suburbs, broad fields...
...personalismo, Balaguer runs a tight, one-man government, dispensing all patronage, settling all arguments and making all decisions, even down to personally granting and signing every visa. When he needed money for a pet hydroelectric project in the north, Balaguer not only arranged personally for $30 million in U.S. aid, but organized telethons in Santo Domingo and Santiago that raised another $385,000 from Dominicans themselves. A onetime functionary of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer stops short of being a dictator himself. He not only lacks a dictator's broad powers but believes far more fervently in democracy...