Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government positions north of the royal capital of Luangprabang, having taken the strategic valley of Nam Bac in January. In central Laos, two battalions of mixed North Vietnamese and local Communist Pathet Lao forces were thrown back just outside Thakhek on the border of northeast Thailand-a threat so close to home that Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman warned Hanoi that the Thais might have to take direct action to aid Laos. Worst of all is the situation in southern Laos, where North Vietnamese forces have cut road links, launched mortar attacks and surrounded the provincial towns of Lao Ngam...
Other things become immobile, too. While U.S. retail stores and services are cashing in on the new leisure by lengthening their open hours, Russia's have tended to close up with the factories. Short-stocked Muscovites, who have been used to shopping on weekends, set up such a howl when stores started closing down for two days that the city council recently ordered Sunday reopenings for some grocery stores, shoe-repair shops and department stores. The two-day weekend has also been adopted by subway stations, clinics, state banks and libraries, frustrating everyone from moviegoers to Russia...
...more than 450 patients receive the transplants, and one reason is that do nor and recipient have to be close to gether, usually in the same medical cen ter, because a kidney begins to deteriorate immediately and will not "keep" more than about four hours...
...formation of dangerous and possibly fatal blood clots. First there was heparin, extracted from the livers and lungs of beef cattle. Then came coumarins, made from rotted sweet clover. Now some British researchers believe they have found what they want in the venom of a Malayan pit viper, close kin to American rattlesnakes...
...along with the U.S., are members of the international Gold Pool; the pool members, in an effort to hold the price of gold close to the official rate, have been drawing on their own governmental gold reserves-now down to about $25 billion. France, because it is no longer an active member of the pool, was conspicuously missing from the invitation list. Piqued because of the omission, Charles de Gaulle decided to keep the Paris Bourse open last week after London's gold market had shut down at Washington's suggestion. The result (see THE WORLD) was wild...