Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independence, sovereignty and unity, and withdrawal of U.S. forces from the South; 2) no military alliances with foreign countries for either North or South; 3) settlement of South Viet Nam's affairs "in accordance with the program" of the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong's political arm; and 4) achievement of reunification by the Vietnamese people without foreign interference...
...North, attempting by feints, forays and cannon fire to make the Americans jettison their bombloads short of target or burn extra fuel in evasive maneuvers. Last week the U.S. set an aerial ambush to end that harassment-and in the process chopped Ho Chi Minh's air arm off at the elbow. Final tally: destruction of nine MIGs, representing nearly half of the North's best aircraft and one-tenth of its total air strength...
...when the prisons were serving a holiday banquet, was there a pause in the exodus. One escapee even re-enacted a stunt from the Peter Sellers movie Two Way Stretch: he rode to freedom secreted in side a prison garbage truck, all the while desperately ducking the automatic arm that crushes the refuse. Lest would-be escapees lack so antic an imagination, the Mountbatten committee provided a few suggestions of its own. As it out lined weak points in the prison security system, it theorized about a whole range of potential escapes - from prisoners scooped up by low-flying helicopters...
With that, Clay flung off his jacket and threw a left, which Terrell, luckily perhaps, deflected with an arm. Then Cassius angrily stalked away, accompanied by three Black Muslim bodyguards...
...Business, said Galbraith, has freed itself from a lot besides marketplace chance-taking. For one thing, owners can rarely bother the managers. Ownership is so broad that the individual stockholder is a "passive and functionless figure." Even bankers can be held at arm's length, because corporations, to an ever-increasing degree, can finance themselves through retained earnings...