Word: chapterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrender ended a bloody chapter that began in March 1970, after a bloodless coup ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk as chief of state. The new regime, headed by General Lon Nol, almost immediately launched a campaign to drive Hanoi's troops from their base camps inside Cambodia and quash the Khmer Rouge, a ragtag band of 3,000 to 5,000 leftist guerrillas. After initial hesitations, Washington backed the new regime. The U.S. invasion of Cambodia in 1970, directed against North Vietnamese sanctuaries, was partly designed to help Lon Nol. Also helpful were $1.8 billion in aid and thousands...
...their part, groups that favor free choice on abortion can claim no great record for tolerance either. Four months ago, the NOW chapter in Columbus voted to excommunicate one of its members, Pat Goltz. Her crime: she headed an anti-abortion organization called Feminists for Life...
Phnom-Penh was about to fall. The fateful and almost certainly final siege of Saigon was about to begin. The most frustrating and tragic chapter in the history of U.S. foreign policy was, one way or another, ending. And a new American President, unelected at home and untested abroad, was about to shake off the shackles of past U.S. failures in Southeast Asia and place his own unique stamp on America's global diplomacy by fashioning new policies on which Americans could unite. Such was the setting and the advance billing for what Gerald Ford had promised would...
...Asia.' " But when he failed to live up to his image as China's man of destiny, and the new Asia so ardently expected by Americans failed to materialize, Chiang found himself abandoned by the Truman Administration. That placed Chiang at the center of an unhappy chapter in postwar U.S. history: the hate-filled witch hunt for those who "lost China...
Slow Judgment. The trial of John Hill (part Mohawk Indian) and Charley Joe Pernasilice (part Catawba) for murder and attempted murder was about to end, concluding a chapter of the American tragedy called Attica. But the end was slow in coming. It took three days of lengthy deliberations before Jury Forewoman Rosa Moore, one of two blacks on the panel, finally announced the verdict on Saturday night. Hill was found guilty of murder. Pernasilice was found guilty of second degree attempted assault. The men's lawyers promised to appeal...