Word: downe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The timing of such feverish activity seems strange. After months of border skirmishes, the Chinese and Russians five weeks ago sat down to talks in Peking. Though the talks are believed to be stalemated, there have been no reports of renewed tension along the border. One explanation for the war...
Two weeks ago, Ne Win finally handed down his decision about the advisory board's advice. "I am not interested in any economic system, with four legs or otherwise, which does not put the people's interests first," he said. "We must go the way of true socialism...
George Constantin Cotzias fled from his Nazi-occupied homeland in 1941 and resolved to get a medical education in the U.S. Turned down by seven schools, he took the advice of his father, a former mayor of Athens: "If you don't get what you want at first, try...
> At Harvard, militant black students briefly cooperated with S.D.S. raiders in occupying the office of Dean Ernest May to protest the university's allegedly racist employment practices. The black-white alliance broke down when the white radicals insisted on holding May captive. Arguing that such a move would serve...
> In Washington, a Moratorium leader Stephen Cohen, accused Weatherman leaders of trying to "shake down" his committee by demanding $20,000 in return for pledging nonviolence during the peace demonstrations. "We politely told them to get lost," said Cohen. The Weathermen say that they asked for help in paying the...