Word: cordon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon's cynics, it seemed like old home week. There, once again, were the Skyraiders of Air Force Commander Nguyen Cao Ky circling the capital on the lookout for armored columns; there stood the government tanks in a protective cordon around national police headquarters; and there came the worried voice of the Premier over the radio, urging calm and asking help from all to "eliminate the traitors so as to maintain the stability which is necessary for final victory." Another coup had been nipped...
...gringo on it, and if not a gringo then an industrialist." At each turn of the negotiations with Special Envoy Martin, Caamaño had new complaints, new demands, new reasons for not negotiating with Imbert's junta. He imperiously demanded his own "corridor" slicing across the U.S. cordon along Avenida San Juan Bosco-to maintain communication with "our forces in the north." Such a passage would nullify the entire U.S. effort to isolate the fighting; the demand was swiftly rejected. Caamaño excused himself so often to huddle secretly with his "advisers" that there was increasing doubt...
...reflecting the glare of admiration with infinite majesty, and disdain. His aides lined up behind him and the people behind them. The first five rows seemed uncomfortable on Jackson St. Their ties were knotted, their nails polished, their smiles distant, their cuffs pinned with large pearl links. A cordon of yellow-helmeted aides formed a wedge, King motioned, and the police lines--so immovable the day before--melted. The march began...
...street was cleared, but not for long. In a short while, the students marched back. They made no effort to break through the new cordon of soldiers and police, but a student leader announced over a megaphone that they would not leave until the prisoners were released. When the police finally relented, the crowd dispersed...
...British freighter en route from Leghorn to West Africa with a cargo of textiles, rugs and Olivetti typewriters sank in a storm off Naples. Insurance company divers said the water was too deep for salvage. The company ordered new divers from West Germany and, meanwhile, threw a police-boat cordon around the sunken ship. When the Germans arrived, they found the freighter stripped clean, presumably by human chains of skindivers working at night. At the same time, the vicoli (back alleys) of Naples were ablaze with Oriental rugs hung out to dry and the narrow streets shaded by bolts...