Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hiqh-Level Dismay. At the same time, the Communists have renewed their pressure on Cambodia. Three crack NVA regiments last week tangled with elite Cambodian troops for control of the Vihear Suor marshes on the east bank of the Mekong, which are the key to the eastern defenses of Phnom-Penh. In the Cambodian capital, a mere dozen miles away, residents could hear the fighting. While the Communists appear to have no interest in toppling Phnom-Penh, they want.control of the marshes to increase their flexibility in responding to potential ARVN attacks...
...cost ARVN about 800 dead, wounded and missing; the Communists claim that the figure is almost twice as high. Saigon reports that with U.S. air support, its troops inflicted 4,500 casualties on the enemy. Yet as a result of the performance in Snuol, there was enough high-level dismay in Saigon that the task force commander, Brigadier General Nguyen Van Hieu, was relieved of his command...
...Philadelphia, with a one-third black population and the highest incidence of black gang violence in the country, Rizzo's tactics have inspired either admiration or dismay. From the beginning Rizzo was so confident of victory that he refused to debate his opponents or make any appeal to the black vote. Instead he limited his campaign appearances-usually no more than one a day -to friendly white neighborhoods and concentrated on polishing his gruff supercop image. "I was there in every crisis when Philadelphia needed me," he told one audience. He did not have to spell out the fact...
After the verdict the defendants, their supporters and some of the men and women who had sat in judgment of them gathered for a victory celebration. At the party, Juror Frederick Hills expressed his dismay at the conspiracy statutes frequently invoked to prosecute dissenters and radicals. Said Hills: "It's disgusting-a large lasso to bring in people for so many things." Five of the defendants remained in jail because other charges were pending against them, but the others-with the exception of eight-months-pregnant Afeni Shakur, who was out on bail-were released. Some had been held...
...manpower market without adequate long-range planning. The buildup of the scientists and engineers after Sputnik was accomplished at considerable public expense with grants to students and universities from dozens of Government agencies. The carrot, not the stick, filled the graduate schools with young scientists?and then to their dismay and confusion, the carrot was withdrawn...