Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemy's plans for a major monsoon offensive in the Central Highlands last summer were aborted by such U.S. spoiling operations as Paul Revere and Hawthorne. Operation El Paso broke up an attempted Communist onslaught along the central coast. Most recently, Hanoi began massing for an invasion straight south across the demilitarized zone: some 8,800 U.S. Marines and four battalions of South Vietnamese troops are now in place to prevent it. Hanoi covets a victory over some isolated American unit for its psychological and propaganda value, but this hope has proved elusive. Already this year, the Communists have...
...emigre "parties" are mere cliques that are largely ignored in Viet Nam itself. Typical is the new Central Left Party organized by General Nguyen Khanh, the strongman who was overthrown last year by current Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and other generals. So far, the party has only 60 members and has put forth no program...
...railroads, New York Central President Alfred Perlman once explained that for years they had endured the lash of critics who "thought the industry was like the dodo bird-with its head where its tail feathers ought to be." Until recently, the critics seemed to be right. Standpat thinking smothered rail progress for most of the first four decades of the century, while autos, trucks and air travel nibbled away at the railroads' markets. Belatedly realizing that one track that led to greater efficiency was merger, the railroads since 1956 have persuaded the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve 26 mergers...
Mister Buddwing fritters away nearly two hours helping James Garner to identify himself. His name isn't really Buddwing. But soon after he wakes up in Central Park with a blank past, he shoots significant glances at a Budweiser truck (Budd) and a jet plane (wing). Easy. Thus begins, again, the old amnesia plot. Remember? This time around, forget...
...United States remains in Vietnam, Hoffmann said, its central problem will be to persuade the political elites in South Vietnam to work harder for peace. The only alternatives to peace, he said, are continuing escalation or quagmire...