Word: erne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their heavily entrenched quarry-some 500 regulars of the 6th NVA Regiment and Viet Cong units-seemed almost as much hunter as prey because of its formidable position. With their backs to the river at the Citadel's south ern end, the Communists fought from ramparts and arches protected by massive stone walls more than eight feet thick. Because of the Citadel's symbolic value to the Vietnamese, the allies first tried to retake it without the fire power punch of artillery and air strikes, but the dug-in Communists repelled wave after wave of assaults...
...Mediterranean Hooverville of plaster-sided shacks whose tin roofs clatter in the chill winter wind. The Arabs who occupy the camp are Palestinian refugees, who were assigned their 25 flat, barren acres by the United Nations after the Israeli army had driven them from their homes in north ern Palestine. The first of the homeless arrived there in 1947 just before Christmas. As their numbers swelled, TIME Correspondent James Bell was a frequent visitor to the refugee camp. Last week Bell returned to Ein el Hilweh to see what two decades had done to its people. His report...
...EARTH, PEACE (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). The Christmas music of Central and East ern Europe, with Baritone Igor Gorin, Tenor Jan Kiepura and Soprano Eva Li-kova. Repeat...
...priest may be automatically excommunicated if he divulges any information told him by a penitent -and deviations from the rule are al most nonexistent. Protestant ministers are equally circumspect regarding personal matters discussed with parishioners. The privilege of the confessional is acknowledged by courts in most West ern countries. In West Germany, for example, both Catholic and Protestant clerics - as well as psychiatrists dealing with mental patients - are exempt from a law requiring citizens to report any knowledge of crimes committed. The Bartsch case, however, has stirred an extraordinary amount of outcry against the silence of the priest involved...
Each year the bloodhounds-mostly hard-breathing Republicans and South ern Democrats-nip closer, but each year Eliza stays an inch or two ahead...