Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some time, Hanoi has been making meticulous preparations to do just that. Four North Vietnamese divisions are stationed along South Viet Nam's northern borders within easy reach of newly built roads running into the country across the Laotian border and through the Demilitarized Zone. Hanoi's crack 320th Division has been spotted moving south, along with some 50 tanks, toward South Viet Nam's weak Military Region II (the Central Highlands), where the main Communist thrust is expected. Already, three North Vietnamese regiments are grouped in Binh Dinh province, which is rated as the least secure...
Prime Minister John Lynch last week carried through with his promise to crack down on Irish Republican Army terrorists in Eire. He ordered home the bulk of Ireland's 391-man military force from U.N. peace-keeping duties in Cyprus to bolster patrols trying to prevent the I.R.A. from slipping back and forth across the Ulster border. Irish police arrested three I.R.A. suspects, on charges of illegally possessing arms and ammunition, at their homes in Bundoran, a favorite frontier sanctuary of gunmen. One of them was Joseph O'Neill, a prominent I.R.A. political leader...
...Japan, the storm warnings were up. Jane Fonda-or, as local newspapers described her, "Typhoon Jane" -was blowing into the country to stir up the peace movement, lash the resident U.S. military brass and crack a few thunderbolts at male chauvinism. After whooshing through five Japanese cities, Jane had generated formidable gusts of publicity and scattered showers of four-letter words. But the impact was considerably less than tropical force...
...dollar's devaluation, one might have said with Caesar: "The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack." In fact, the devaluation took place in relative calm; most inside the U.S. and abroad hailed it as a realistic first step toward a long overdue reorganization of a world monetary system that had not been overhauled since the Bretton Woods conference...
Louisville authorities have tried to crack down on domestics who collect welfare while working in homes. Because they are paid in cash and no records are kept, they are hard to catch. Their employers are happy to contribute to the ruse. Since the maids are partially subsidized by the government, they settle for low wages. Says Jefferson County Attorney Bruce Million: "The irony is that some of these wealthy people who hire the maids are always griping about how many people are on welfare...