Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking back on the war, Tra was inclined to view the Tet offensive in 1968 and the Easter offensive in 1972 as the turning points. "The aim of Tet was to get the Americans to de-escalate," he said. "The aim of the 1972 offensive was to force the Americans to sign a peace agreement. These were both victories." And what of An Loc, the South Vietnamese town that held out for three months against the assaults of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops? Tra glowered. "There are some things that it is best not to talk about," he said...
Dump Truck will travel to sone new places this spring with an expanded staff and more frequent issues. Women, Medical Ethics, and Books and Literature will be our pre-Easter themes. After vacation, we turn to American Culture, Cambridge, and The University, with a Photography Supplement to round out the reading period grind...
Impossible. With telling closeups, like Faberge-crafted, peekaboo Easter eggs, Antoon created an almost three-dimensional illusion of depth. Like the Faberge egg itself, this Much Ado was a jewel...
...cease-fire was preceded by an awesome spasm of violence. Both sides used the 117 hours between the announcement of the agreement and the actual start of the cease-fire to seek last-minute military advantage. The grabbing added up to some of the heaviest fighting since the Easter offensive. Flying from bases in Thailand, Navy carriers offshore and the airbase at Bien Hoa, home of the last U.S. combat unit in Viet Nam (see box), U.S. pilots flew record sorties in an effort to stop the Communist drive. The Viet Cong made some potentially significant last-minute gains, especially...
...Casey. The play tells of the Easter Rising of 1916, a kind of futile miniature war seen through the eyes of the innocent bystanders. O'Casey's tragicomic vision is almost as constant as Shakespeare's, and his ironic sense of people and events moves always through counterpoint. After some fancy blather about "the glory of bloodshed," one sees the terrible reality of a boy dying of a stomach wound. Nora (Roberta Maxwell) pleads desperately with her husband not to go on with the fighting. He leaves her, is killed, and she goes affectingly...