Word: behind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideologically suspect South Vietnamese, the three soldiers were treated as second-class citizens who were not allowed to carry weapons in Hanoi's army. They trailed behind North Vietnamese regulars engaged in mop-up operations against the Khmer Rouge insurgents. Casualties and deaths were heavy in combat with the fierce Khmer. The South Vietnamese had the grisly duty of loading the body bags of the dead onto trucks headed back to Viet Nam. Lately, the deserters reported, Hanoi has been ordering the Vietnamese dead to be buried within Cambodia...
...suburb. Bouncing in their seats, the passengers-13 men and five women-dozed or talked quietly as they traveled the familiar route from the Sabana Seca Communications Station to a radio transmitter site four miles away. Nobody paid any attention to a green pickup truck that was following close behind...
...last major hurdle in the quest for a truce was achieved by a formula that made subtle concessions to both sides without spelling them out in detail. It was cobbled together in a brilliant, behind-the-scenes piece of diplomacy by Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath Ramphal and a group of British Foreign Office aides. At a three-hour meeting Tuesday night with Nkomo and Mugabe, Ramphal and the guerrilla chiefs examined each line of the deadlocked cease-fire proposals until a reasonable formula was found. Then they called Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, who is chairman of the Presidents...
...Fewer and fewer people are related to jobs that they can identify with," says he. "They see no connection between what they do on the job and what comes out at the end." They spend their lives isolated behind typewriters and computer consoles. Gyllenhammar worries that company chiefs expect the industrial Indians to be machinelike. "If they die little by little every year, nobody cares very much." But millions of workers are becoming fed up, he believes, and the frustrations are rising equally in Europe, Japan and North America...
...Beatles fell prey to divisiveness, disarray. The Rolling Stones traveled fast, turned gangrenous. The Who kept its distance, stayed strong by staying stubborn, contentious. Buoyed by the great breaking wave of British rock during the '60s, the group managed to swim clear. "We've sometimes been able to hide behind bands like the Beatles and the Stones, who got so much flak," Townshend says. "Yet we were significantly stronger than other contemporaries. Stronger in live performance, for example. And much more daring with material...