Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unit victories and massive Allied search-and-destroy sweeps have not so far advanced the vital pacification program, partly because South Vietnamese troops have been slow to take to their new village-security tasks. No matter how many North Vietnamese regulars are killed along the DMZ or in the Central Highlands, it is not much aid or comfort to the peasants in a Viet Cong-ridden village down in the Delta, where a third of the country's people live...
Three weeks ago, near Dak To in the Central Highlands of South Viet Nam, North Vietnamese troops over ran American positions, inflicting heavy casualties on the outnumbered, ambushed G.I.s. Then the North Vietnamese systematically slaughtered the Americans who lay wounded on the battlefield. It was only the latest in the continuing series of atrocities that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have made a deliberate and calculat ed part of their war tactics. With a chilling combination of care and coldbloodedness, they have assassinated pacification leaders, killed U.S. AID workers, decapitated village chiefs, abducted whole hamlets, and murdered prisoners...
...gold stripes of Germany flew above the red hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. It was a tribute to German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by all odds the world's finest lieder singer, who was to perform in the barn during the Touraine Festival in central France. It was also an act of self-effacement by Fischer-Dieskau's accompanist, Soviet Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who has made the rustic, four-year-old festival his own showcase...
...none of these records has documented the survival of a U.S. citizen past 111 years. Nor have the incredible assertions of such hardy Soviet peasants as Shirali Muslimov, who claims to be 161 or more, been borne out. One likely reason for their confusion is that in parts of Central Asia years are computed in twelve-year cycles, each year being named for an animal. Thus a man born in the year of the horse might have been born in 1846 or 1858 or 1870-and not understand the difference in time...
...gets 23%, shipping 15% and pipelines 18%). So it was a neat move last week when the Flying Tiger Line, the nation's biggest all-cargo airline, reached into railroading's highest corporate ranks to name Wayne M. Hoffman, 44, the No. 2 man at New York Central, as its new board chairman. In making the switch, Hoffman happily characterized Flying Tiger as a company that is "just beginning to grow...