Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon, Henry Kissinger '50, and other architects of Indochina war crimes may some day stand in judgment of some higher court. But the president has made it known he may ignore a Supreme Court ruling and the White House confesses that the Nixons have not attended church since last Easter. Clearly, no judgment weighs heavily on his conscience...
...American painter coated with a more adhesive legend: the salty country boy who never went to school and picked it all up in his father's studio; the brusque down-Easter with a Huck Finn smile who never went for that French art stuff and never once moved out of America. The weathered faces of Wyeth's favorite subjects -Christina Olson, Karl Kuerner or Ralph Cline, the veteran patriot with a skull like a parchment-covered round shot-have become nearly as familiar as Charlie Brown or Donald Duck. They are seen as icons of survival and indomitability...
...Aaron plans to marry one of his home-town fans. Billye Williams, 36, a widow with a daughter, 6, met Aaron when she interviewed him for a local television show. Billye later became a regular booster behind the Braves' dugout and the couple have been secretly engaged since Easter...
...Sank. The Rock Pile. Hamburger Hill. Con Thien. The faint echoes of these and other bloody battles of the Indochina war rumble across I Corps,* the northernmost military region of South Viet Nam. During last year's Easter offensive, the Communists captured most of the area; today it is the scene of a curious military standoff. Recently TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott visited I Corps-officially known as Military Region I-and cabled this report...
...city that will not be resettled is Quang Tri, which was completely destroyed in the seesaw battles that followed the Easter offensive. It is a modern-day Dresden, with not a single building intact, nor a yelping dog, nor a piece of washing on the line. No one lives there, apart from some members of the International Commission of Control and Supervision and a small South Vietnamese army contingent...