Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had the Chinese attacked India last year than the usually aloof Red Chinese diplomats scurried from their rambling Karachi embassy compound to court the Pakistanis. In December Ayub readily accepted China's offer to redraw the border between China's Sinkiang region and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir in a way favorable to Pakistan. A trade agreement followed in January, and recently Pakistan's Foreign Minister hinted broadly that China had agreed to aid Pakistan against possible Indian attack. Last week Pakistan and Communist China signed an airline agreement that could make Pakistan...
...ingenuity than humanity; crossroads?hence traffic lights ?have been eliminated, but there are not enough parking spaces near government buildings. Housing for officials smacks of the ghetto. If you are in the Air Ministry, you not only work together all day, but you also live in the same compound with your colleagues at night...
Accompanying Secretary of State Dean Rusk on his Russian trip, Western newsmen last week got their first glimpse of Nikita Khrushchev's seaside hideaway. It made the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port look like a Boy Scout bivouac...
...main compound, surrounded by an ugly ten-foot cement-block wall, is composed of three villas. Khrushchev's is designed in Soviet-modern, a boxlike, sandstone, two-story building topped with a roof-garden penthouse reached by an outside elevator. A huge porch is enclosed by glass on two sides and opens to the sea. Near by is a similar two-story villa for servants and security men. The third building is a recreation house that erupts in a variety of verandas, terraces and wall-to-wall windows. Attached to the back is a glassed-in gymnasium with Oriental...
...Communist Viet Cong was obviously trying to capitalize on the Buddhist crisis. Stepping up their attacks, the Red guerrillas wounded 14 U.S. advisers in a mortar barrage on a U.S. compound in Can Tho and killed three Americans when the Reds shot up a U.S. medical convoy north of Saigon. A fourth adviser was killed later in the week when jittery sentries began shooting at each other in the dark. The dead brought to 89 the number of U.S. troops killed in the war in South Viet...