Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-American campaign hit its high point shortly after midnight one day last week when several dozen long-haired Laotian students scaled the 9-ft. wire fence surrounding the sprawling USAID compound in Vientiane, Laos' administrative capital. After several hundred reinforcements were bused in the next morning, the students kept two U.S. Marines and one U.S. civilian locked inside the main buildings. They also ransacked the compound, liberating cases of American beer from the commissary...
...Laos. At the start of the week, about 850 U.S. officials and dependents and 150 businessmen, journalists, missionaries and other private citizens were based there. Some of them came under attack last week. In Luang Prabang, site of King Savang Vatthana's royal capital, leftist students stormed the compound of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Waving banners and banging drums, they smashed desks and tossed typewriters through windows. During a similar attack against USAID facilities at Savannakhet, a youthful mob looted food stocks and placed three Americans under house arrest. At week's end the demonstrators were...
...that enables the body to assimilate calcium from food and deposit it in the bones. They have tested it on about 50 patients so far. DeLuca is confident that the synthetic vitamin will prove invaluable to some 100,000 people who have serious kidney disease. The vitamin D compound has already had dramatic effect on Canadian Arthur Olson, 24, whose bones had deteriorated so badly that they could no longer support his body. Within a month of being treated with the compound, he was able to give up his wheelchair. After four months, he abandoned his crutches...
...thought we were finished." Luckily Dith Pran, a Cambodian employee of the Times, was able to talk the troops into freeing them. Schanberg got back to the Hotel Le Phnom just as it was being invaded by troops; he packed his bags and sprinted to the French embassy compound -his home for the next 13 days...
...many as 1,300 refugees were crowded into the compound, and it was not long before many of the foreigners began squabbling over the little food and few comforts available. That dissension continued up to the end of their three-day journey by truck to Thailand. Concluded Schanberg: "If the Communists were looking for reasons to expel us as unfit and unsuited to live in a simple Asian society, we gave them ample demonstration...