Word: chuan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fasten Seat Belts. Ky flew in his own plane to Danang, where he was met at the airport by Thi's successor, appointed by the junta, Major General Chuan. While Ky's marines set up tents near the airport, and demonstrators, aided by some 300 I Corps soldiers, haphazardly set up barricades and roadblocks on the airport road, Ky and Chuan had a tough private talk. The result was a compromise: Ky apologized for saying that Danang was ruled by Communists, but insisted-with good reason-that the Viet Cong had infiltrated the demonstrators. Chuan ordered posters...
...order to get an artillery strike against the Viet Cong. Without the U.S. advisers around, not a Vietnamese soldier was on duty to answer the call. Next morning, half an hour before the U.S. personnel, their seat belts fastened, were due to fly out, General Chuan called and asked them to stay, personally guaranteeing the safety of every American citizen in Hué. The military advisers went back to their units, the civilians were evacuated-and Hué became noticeably calmer...
...DECATHLON. Ducky Drake, his track coach at the University of California at Los Angeles, calls him "the finest athlete in the world." Nationalist China's wiry Yang Chuan-kwang, 29, may be just that. For a few days last January C. K. Yang held the world indoor pole-vault record: 16 ft. 3¼ in. Last week at Walnut, his legs were racked with cramps, and Coach Drake had to massage his muscles. Yang still managed to vault 15 ft. 10½ in., enough to earn him 1,515 points on the decathlon scale -the maximum allowed...
...glass poles, skivvy-suited acrobats are soaring to unexplored heights almost every week. In Toronto, a West Virginia public relations man named Dave Tork rocketed 16 ft. 2% in. and claimed a new indoor world record. The very next night, in Portland. Ore., a wiry U.C.L.A. senior named Yang Chuan-kwang thundered 120 ft. down a runway and slammed his pole into the take-off well. Boing! Wheel...
...longer made "the conclusion of a peace treaty the same problem as it was before Aug. 13." Everyone applauded enthusiastically-everyone, that is, except the little man in a grey-blue uniform who sat impassively among the delegates to the left of the rostrum. He was Wu Hsiu-chuan, Red China's delegate sent by Peking to register quiet disdain at Khrushchev's conduct in the latest chapter in the Sino-Soviet split...