Word: communale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...majority of cases, men of fighting age have escaped to the forests before they could be rounded up into the fortified settlements. "They have gone to cut wood," say the old men who stayed behind. Meanwhile, back at the camps, there is widespread discontent in the long communal barracks which house the families. The peasants will not be compensated for their destroyed homes until they "demonstrate loyalty" to the government. And in the countryside the guerillas continue to attract support by their successes...
...Every year they put on a musical, and some of them have to dress up for the female parts, and old grads come, and there are drinks, and then they go on a tour. Some years the shows are really good, and other years, they're institutions, communal rites whose entertainment value is pretty low unless you're a member of the tribe...
...Talented unmarried women under 35 who are working in the arts" have been particularly invited to join in an experimental communal settlement in Australasia being organized...
South Vietnamese combat soldiers were being employed. U.S. Specialist Four James T. Davis, 25, of Livingston, Tenn., was riding a three-quarter-ton Signal Corps truck equipped with a location finder to spot a clandestine Red radio transmitter that has been broadcasting messages to Communist North Viet Nam. On Communal Road No. 10, a little before noon, the Signal Corps truck was blown up by an electrically detonated land mine. From both sides of the road, Viet Cong guerrillas opened withering fire. Specialist Davis and eight South Vietnamese soldiers died...
...120th anniversary, the weekly English-language Chronicle has reason to be proud. By a quarter century, no other Jewish publication has lasted so long. With 60,000 subscribers of all persuasions in 50 countries (there are even two in Thailand), the Chronicle has determinedly maintained its independence of political, communal or financial interests. It is read with respect by Zionists, anti-Zionists, reform, conservative and orthodox Jews -and by the British Foreign Office and the U.S. Department of State. Its headquarters staff of 100 (a third of them non-Jews), 40 British correspondents and 60 overseas stringers not only faithfully...