Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sleeping beside the River of Perfumes, the Imperial City of Hué in central Viet Nam seems to have no purpose beyond its past. Once, a century ago, the Nguyen princes ruled nearly all of Viet Nam from their proud palaces with their gardens and lagoons in Hué (pronounced whey). Today their palaces are crumbling, and Hué is a subdued and ceremonial city of 105,000 without a newspaper, scarcely a telephone, and little traffic beyond bicycles and canvas-topped cyclo taxis. The only industry is a lime plant employing 50 people. Lunch is a leisurely three-hour...
...public holiday commemorating Emperor Hung Vuong, who founded Viet Nam more than 3,000 years ago, Saigon's Buddhists asked the government for a license to celebrate the occasion in the city's central market. Ky and the generals agreed, provided that no more than 600 took part and that there was no antigovernment tone to it. Saigon Buddhist Leader Thich Tam Chau promised as much-or as little. But several thousand gathered at the market, led by five well-known agitators. They pinned up pictures of Ky and other generals on the stakes used for public executions...
...work for the Air Cav, the world's most mobile division. Ranging at lethal will all over Central Viet Nam from their 12,000-sq.-ft. home helipad, cut out of the scrub at An Khe, the 478 helicopters and transports of the Flying Horsemen are seldom more than two hours away from an enemy highland unit that tries to mass for an attack. Flying more than 300,000 sorties in seven major campaigns and countless smaller ones, the Air Cav has killed 3,626 Communists since it arrived in force in Viet Nam last August-more than...
...series of demonstrations by merchants and students alike. As the decibel count climbed in Quito and the commercial capital of Guayaquil, the junta's patience began running out. Two weeks ago, 500 troops armed with rifles and machine guns swarmed onto the campus of Quito's Central University, firing into the air, hustling 800 students and professors off to jail-and triggering even more demonstrations throughout the country...
Javits need not start from scratch. Since 1962, the Latin America Free Trade Association (LAFTA) has helped increase trade 85% among its nine members. It has reduced tariffs on a cumbersome item-by-item basis. The slightly older Central American Common Marked has done better by chopping tariffs across the board. Partly as a result, trade among its five members has increased 294% since...