Word: duel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sporadic artillery duel continued, Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma desperately tried to get his pro-Communist halfbrother, Pathet Lao Leader Prince Souphanouvong, to agree to a resumption of truce talks. But Souphanouvong vetoed every location for the peace talks suggested by Souvanna Phouma. Sighed a Neutralist colonel: "The discussions move like the tortoise and the war can move like the hare. Maybe before the location for the peace talks is decided, the decision for Laos will have been made in battle...
...Frank Ripley gave the Crimson its first single win against the Tigers in two years when he walloped Hugh Lynch, 6-4, 6-2, in the number three match, and Doug Walter, number five, outsteadled C.D. Smith in a backcourt duel...
...three of its games and a pitcher, Dick MacPherson, who hasn't given up a run this spring. MacPherson has been touched for only six hits in his eighteen innings of pitching. In his last start he blanked Tufts on a two-hitter, beating Miles Negelo in a pitchers' duel, 2-0, Del Rossi also outputted Nogelo when the Crimson played Tufts, but Del Rossi won't be pitching for Harvard Saturday...
John Kennedy walked into his duel with de Gaulle like a man who walks into a play just as the curtain rises on the last act: because he does not understand the characters, he does not understand the plot...
Probably the first U.S. response would be diplomatic: to persuade the Russians of the advantages of pulling out and the risks of staying. (The Soviet-U.S. duel over Cuba currently goes on under strange rules: the U.S. tolerates Soviet antiaircraft weapons, which in turn do not fire on low-flying U.S. reconnaissance planes.) But a real uprising in Cuba would not be like a Bay of Pigs invasion financed from abroad. It would be a cry for help which the U.S. could not afford to ignore...