Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggested that the communique was only "the tip of an iceberg." Saigon puzzled unhappily over the fact that, unlike Japan and South Korea, South Viet Nam was given no specific U.S. pledge of support in the communique. Indonesians voiced the fear that Japan, left out in the cold, might arm itself with nuclear weapons...
...Noise. The students who have been pouring tea, age 12 or 13, step back against the wall. One smiles. A few wear the red arm bands that designate them as Red Guards. Proud of his operation, Wang keeps hurrying his guests on to see more. First comes a chemistry class. Mao looks down from the wall again. The students sit like robots listening to the teacher talk about analyzing the content of calcium. They recite like soldiers, turning to their books and back again on command, as if executing close-order drill. Nobody slouches, no eyes stray from the teacher...
...people" man, was named president, and he will head employee, regulatory and financial operations. William L. Lindholm, 57, who was named vice chairman, will coordinate A.T. & T.'s installation and construction activities, as well as oversee Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric, the company's supply arm. Cornelius W. Owens, 58, remains executive vice president; he will head a corporate planning office...
...Phelan, who had been hired to ghostwrite the story of the man who knows more than anyone else in the world about the life and times of Howard Hughes. He is Noah Dietrich, 83, who for 32 years was Hughes' chief of staff, hatchet man, fixer and right arm. The conclusion emerging from a study of both manuscripts is that much of Irving's book was lifted from Phelan's writings. Irving could have come into possession of the Phelan version, along with 150 pages of the transcript of tape-recorded interviews with Dietrich, some time...
...they emerge again it is to carry the family to join the other Jewish townspeople in the schoolhouse of Ferrara, the first depot on their train ride to those "hotels in the woods, where instead of giving you a key to your room, they burn a number into your arm...