Word: conquests
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...Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, Lyndon Johnson declared: "The first reality is that North Viet Nam has attacked South Viet Nam; its object is total conquest...
...GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. This gloriously old-fashioned tale of a young man's conquest of the Amazon and his own restless nature is a welcome return to romantic adventure as a novelistic form...
...Manhattan was to have been that intrepid adventurer Bobby Kennedy, 39. At the last moment, though, New York's junior Senator was detained in Washington-and perhaps it was just as well. When the Explorers were treated to a five-minute color film showing Bobby's conquest of Mount Kennedy, they burst into jeering laughter at every glimpse of the Senator. Said Manhattan Lawyer Richard Steel, a director of the Explorers Club: "When you see Bobby being carried 8,000 ft. up the mountain by helicopter, then being carried the rest of the way between two professional climbers...
...first reality is that North Vietnam has attacked the independent nation of South Vietnam. Its object is total conquest." In the first place, South Vietnam is not an "independent nation" but half of the nation of Vietnam as stated in the Geneva accords. Secondly, the White Paper's hard evidence of North Vietnamese intervention was limited to 179 weapons from the Communist bloc captured over an 18-month period and six infiltrators of North Vietnamese origin in seven years...
...Amid the current "genuine excitement in Peru," my wife and I worked for three years as Papal Volunteers for Latin America. We were pleased with TIME'S tremendous coverage of Peru's new conquest. Would that more of President Belaúnde's aristocratic countrymen were awakened to the adelante spirit his administration has created...