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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furious and frightened, King Saud hurried back to his capital city of Riyadh, took refuge inside the seven-mile circumference of Naziriyah Palace compound and ordered his Royal Guard to cover all approaches. At night the 6,000 wall lights on the palace glared brightly to avoid a sneak attack, as the King fired off a nervous demand for assurances that Feisal would not depose...
...central difficulty in Tillich's thought lies in his attempt to compound mystical and oceanic notions, such as "Being" and "The Demoniac" with a rigid and absolute ontological system. The result is confusion, not clarity; metaphysical jargon, not insight. Morality and Beyond does not succeed. It does nothing to lessen the gap between morality, which belongs to man, and religion, which belongs...
...sugarcane fields toward a camp of U.S. and South Vietnamese Special Forces at Hiephoa, barely 20 miles west of Saigon. Ducking under watchtowers bristling with machine guns and floodlights, the Reds knifed a sentry, forded a three-foot-deep moat, snipped three barbed-wire fences, and slipped into the compound-evidently in collusion with a spy inside, who unlocked the gate. Then, while guerrillas outside opened up with a mortar barrage, the infiltrators attacked to the blast of a bugle...
...army officer standing near by. Other prints showed the coffins, decorated with flowers and candles, beside two freshly dug graves, and a European priest in the foreground along with a Vietnamese man and woman said to be Diem relatives. The site was said to be a cemetery within the compound of Joint General Staff Headquarters...
Speaking to the Latin American Association, Ambassador Charles Barrows said "Hondurans were surprised by the United States' suspension of relations following the military take-over. They simply didn't believe that we would with-hold recognition or aid." He added that the "compound shock effect" of six coups in the last year and a half in Latin America contributed substantially to the hard-line policy the United States now exercises toward military juntas...