Word: bus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gear, the buses began a circuitous tour of Saigon. Were they searching out more Americans? We didn't know. "Graham Martin sightseeing excursions," cracked one correspondent. Every few blocks the buses stopped, perhaps unsure if the road ahead was clear. An ARVN soldier rushed up to our bus and banged against the door. "Take me out!" he yelled. The Marine guard on our bus slapped him hard across the back. "Goddam, we took out 25,000 Vietnamese...
...have to. Inside the airbase, a damaged American helicopter, one skid broken off, lay on the ground, its rotor still spinning. A tremendous explosion rocked our bus as a North Vietnamese 130-mm. shell hit the Air America terminal just across the road. "Don't panic!" shouted our Marine escort...
...woman, caught between a bus and the building when a shell burst, was carried inside unconscious, but only from fright. A European walked down the line asking everybody to sign a 500-piaster note he wanted to keep as a souvenir. Sister Fidema of the Good Shepherd Convent in Saigon knelt over her suitcase and prayed. "I've been here four years," she said later. "These have been good years until this week. But this has been the saddest ever." The day before, 90 children from the convent had been taken out to Tan Son Nhut but had been...
...enter a U.S. base to do so remained uncertain. At the same time, U.S. authorities were coping with disgruntled American evacuees who did not fancy their lodgings and were impatient to be on their way. At Guam, a band of Americans staged an hour long sit-in on a bus until they were given better quarters...
...reports only one of ten studies found that bused blacks gained over non-bused whites. This is not starting considering the advantage the white students had in not having to switch schools. There was no comparison made in any study between bused blacks and bused whites because no white bus schedules were altered in-any sample group, and he reports that five of the ten studies found conclusive gains for bused blacks over their non-bused peers in a number of skill areas. The remaining studies are of questionable conclusiveness (in each case by Leach's admission) due to lack...