Word: chu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Near Chu Lai, 320 miles northeast of Saigon, four U.S. Marines were killed and four others wounded in a clash with the Viet Cong...
...into the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE). And in Viet Nam, despite a continuing chorus of criticism, particularly on U.S. college campuses,' the President kept increasing the pressure. In the largest amphibious landing operation since the Korean War, 3,000 marines and 3,000 seabees went ashore near Chu Lai to build an airbase for launching more bombing raids into North Viet Nam. Although the President solemnly declared that "our firmness may well have brought us closer to peace," he admitted to reporters last week: "It's a mess. There is no question about that. I wish...
Wholesale Murder? Camaraderie, however, was notably absent last week. The chimneys of all but a handful of the city's sento were smokeless, and signs on the doors read, "Suto-Chu [On strike-closed]." The sento suto was called because the city government had been stalling for nearly six months on granting a rate increase from 6.3? to 8.8? per adult admission requested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Bathhouse Business Association on grounds of "increased expenses...
...general were chosen for ability, not to satisfy political debts. The Cabinet was, in Huong's words, determined to "crack down on graft and nepotism, strengthen the economy, improve housing, education and health." What could be wrong with that? Plenty, according to powerful Ngu yen Xuan Chu, 73, acting chairman of the High National Council, a group of official watchdogs known to Saigon cynics as the "National Museum." Huffing that he had not been consulted on the makeup of the government, Chu resigned. His real complaint seemed deeper than that at least as deep as the grumbling of those...
Braving the Forests. Peking, invoking the historical saying, "Hsien ju wei chu [Whoever enters first is master]," makes much the same point as Moscow -but comes up with a different answer. For the Russian territory Peking covets is largely territory that was wrested from the Chinese empire by czarist forces in the 19th century. Land far to the east of Mongolia was settled by such Russians as Explorer Erofei Pavlovich Khabarov, whose band of Cossacks braved wolf-infested forests and Chinese warriors in their conquest 300 years ago. With the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, Russia's position east...