Word: departements
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...troops were ready to depart, the cease-fire agreement hit a snag. U.S. Government officials in Saigon insisted that the North Vietnamese release, in addition to all remaining U.S. prisoners in both Viet Nams, the ten P.O.W.s known to be held in Laos, arguing that that had been part of an "understanding" between Le Due Tho and Henry Kissinger. Until that condition was met, the U.S. said, it would refuse to continue the withdrawal of its troops...
...matter what Sharp reports to his government, the Canadians will find it difficult simply to depart. In the end, the Canadians may be forced to remain in Viet Nam simply because their withdrawal would probably destroy the peace-keeping machinery so painstakingly devised by Washington, Hanoi and Saigon...
...flick had a plot. (Well, sort of a plot.) In a nutshell, it goes like this: Mr. Hip, a rich, chic, handsome man in gold Cadillac convertible, picks up two nubile young girls hitchhiking on the road. They ride with him to the end of his driveway and then depart. Well, they don't really depart, because they come back just at dinnertime and drop in. "I told you I had a groovy house," Mr. Hip tells them. "Yeah," they respond. Well, one thing leads to another, and before you can say "statutory rape" the Mr. Hip has screwed...
...what's left of them, Bob McManama and Bill Corkery--and there's no question that they are two of the best forwards to play in a Harvard uniform. Larry Desmond, who filled admirably the gap left by Dave Hynes in mid-season, Harry Reynolds and Jay Riley also depart...
...probably the world's meanest-looking aircraft, with two dozen 500-lb. bombs clustered on racks under the wings and 42 stubby 750-pounders inside. Painted pitch black, they looked like the birds of death that they are. Of all the 80 or so aircraft I watched depart, only one of them had to use its "drag bag"-the drag parachute used to abort a takeoff because of a technical difficulty. A reserve craft quickly took its place. That mass departure, timed to the split second, was a feat the Strategic Air Command ought to teach the world...