Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Communists embarked on a new phase of Vietnamese history, the Americans who left Viet Nam were carrying on a bitter debate about their final hours in Saigon. At issue was Operation Frequent Wind, the massive effort to get U.S. diplomats, businessmen and journalists, along with many of their Vietnamese employees, out of the country in the days and hours before the Communist tanks moved into Saigon...
...emergency departure of the Americans had been drawn up months in advance, but no definite lists of Vietnamese whose lives might have been endangered by the Communists were drawn up until practically the last minute. Many officers and officials on the evacuation flagship U.S.S. Blue Ridge were openly bitter about Ambassador Graham Martin's failure to make firm, clear decisions on how the plan would actually be carried out -feelings that were hardly helped by the sight of Nitnoi, Martin's pet poodle, being given its daily turn about the deck. On evacuation day the emergency plan fell...
...foreigners correctly if sternly. As the days passed, one baby was born, another died. When the seven Russian diplomats arrived from their abandoned embassy, they were loaded down with huge supplies of tinned meat and vodka. They refused to share the goods with the other inmates, thereby becoming the bitter tar gets of Westerners' jokes about revisionist influence...
...step-by-step Middle East diplomacy, Portugal's slide toward leftist rule and the continued dispute between NATO allies Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. The fear was not that Viet Nam had fatally sapped America's physical strength or irretrievably tarnished its moral authority but that the bitter experience of recent events might somehow have traumatized America's will. A front-page editorial in the Brit ish weekly Manchester Guardian bluntly put the question that seemed to be on everybody's mind: "Will defeat in Viet Nam tempt the Americans to tackle their own problems...
Merchant ships moved through the Suez Canal last week for the first time since the Six-Day War eight years ago. In preparation for the canal's formal reopening on June 5, the West German freighters MÜnsterland and Nordwind sailed to Port Said from the Bitter Lakes along with 13 other ships. The rusting carriers had been trapped there since the canal was blocked in 1967. Discerning a parallel between the preparations for the canal reopening and the broader peace negotiations that have made it possible, Egyptian Cartoonist Salah Jaheen in al Ahram last week drew President...