Word: ap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nestled among emerald rice fields and sheltered by the Marine-garrisoned Danang hills, Ap Quang Nam was a showcase village. Passing Marine patrols and their frequent guests were greeted by smiling "hello-okays" from the hamlet's neatly dressed children. Ap Quang Nam's market bustled with black-pajama-clad women, hunkered down to argue prices. One band of men and women sifted gravel to sell to a Danang construction firm-the village's latest self-help project. Each day Navy medical corpsmen held a clinic for boils and bruises, passed out soap, administered an occasional injection...
...hearth. The man who paced back and forth as he spoke over TV to his fellow Californians was obviously used to being before the cameras. He smiled intermittently, carefully turned his head from left to right, delivered his lines with feeling. At 54, Ronald Reagan, who has ap peared in 50 movies, emceed a General Electric-sponsored dramatic series on TV and lately acted as host on Death Valley Days, was playing an unaccustomed role. To no one's surprise, he announced that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of California...
Though the board had signally dented his consensus, Johnson managed to ap pear equally amiable. "We all recognize the Federal Reserve is a board of experts in money and marketing," he remarked mildy. "And I make no pre tense to being a monetary expert. Even experts have a division of opinion 4 to 3, and we do have division all the time within the Government...
...AP speculates that Shelepin's appointment, which will allow him to concentrate his energies on party affairs, means that party discipline will be tightened up and that stricter party supervision will be applied to the drive for economic reform within the USSR...
Shelepin, who has recently wielded enormous power as head of the committee on party and state control, would be the man for the job, according to the AP...