Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moroccan Intervention. At last, Hassan himself decided to intervene, and he chose an ingenious way to do it. Last week Dlimi, his secret-police aide, boarded a Royal Air Maroc Caravelle in Casablanca and flew-suitably disguised and with a fake passport-to Paris. The next afternoon, just as the trial of the six defendants was drawing to a close, Dlimi calmly showed up at the court and surrendered to French authorities...
...then return to school. Often enough, this was not made clear to NYC enrollees themselves. An eighteen-year-old boy at the agency where I worked was suddenly, in September, given the choice of returning to school or being kicked out of the program two weeks later. He chose the latter...
...headquarters near Baltimore, the President outlined a cannily timed proposal for across-the-board boosts of "at least 10%" for all 22 million Social Security beneficiaries. Sharing a platform with local party bigwigs (notably absent: Open-Housing Foe George P. Mahoney, Maryland's Democratic gubernatorial nominee), the President chose a curious way to scold the Republicans - by pinning on them the Democratic Party symbol. "Any donkey can kick down a barn," he said, "but it takes a skilled carpenter to build one. There's a big donkey population in this country around this time of year...
...Congress of Racial Equality chose as its convention theme "The Black Ghetto: An Awakening Giant." CORE was convinced that the black masses -- the lower-classes of the Negro community -- had been relatively unaffected by the civil rights movement. They had no power -- no control over their private and public lives -- and CORE believed they should have a program...
...South Vietnamese troops rushed in from the west. Closing the vise, the 1st Cavalry bored in from the north. With their back to the sea, where the rockets and guns of U.S. Navy vessels made escape impossible, the Reds could either fight and die, or surrender. A record number chose the lesser part of valor, producing the highest prisoner count of any operation in the war. As Operation Irving progressed, some 320 surrendering Viet Cong stumbled into the grasp of the Aircav alone...