Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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llyushins for Hanoi. Barely had the shock of the disaster worn off than the Viet Cong struck again-this time at Lethanh, a district capital in mountainous Pleiku province. In the initial assault, the Reds overran the town, held it for three hours while other Viet Cong units ambushed three...
Girls & Sewing Machines. It is Vientiane's unique charm to be riding the crest of an economic boomlet as political disaster perpetually surrounds it. Indian and Chinese shops are stocked with Scotch whisky, Benares silks, Dior perfumes and Max Factor cosmetics. But under it all lurks the perennial mood...
Three Realities. At week's end, President Johnson went to Waco, Texas, to speak to the graduating class of Baylor University. Like Rusk, he recounted the events leading to U.S. intervention. "Blood and hate drowned ideals, and for days freedom itself stood on the edge of disaster," he said...
And what comes next? "Out of the Dominican crucible the 20 American nations must now forge a stronger shield against disaster," he said. But to do so, they must keep in mind some "new realities."
As the debate continued, all parties launched into a few hurried, stopgap solutions aimed at saving the crops from disaster. Secretary Wirtz approved the employment of about 3,500 braceros (at $1.40 an hour). And, in a cooperative venture of the Labor Department, state government, farmers and schools, more than...