Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A tragic but inevitable feature of the ground war in Viet Nam is that civilians are all too often caught up in the shooting. Time and again U.S. troops are fired upon from the huts of peasant families, from villages that the Viet Cong have commandeered. Should the response be...
First settled by the French and their imported African slaves in the 18th century, the Seychelles (pronounced say-shells) could still pass for Eden. Brightly colored fish dart through their warm clear waters, and frigate birds chase booby birds through the heavy air. Under the cinnamon trees, giant tortoises park...
Yet, says Author Troebst, in the event of catastrophe, nothing is so important for survival as native wit and will. He recalls the case of Ralph Flores and Helen Klaben, who ingeniously contrived to survive for 50 days without food in freezing winter weather after their plane crashed in Canada...
In a coordinated attack earlier this month, Canberra bombers swept in to blast a guerrilla stronghold near Pucuta, a tiny village 90 miles from Huan cayo. Ground forces overran the en campment, killing 20 guerrillas, but an other 40 managed to escape. A few days later, another will-o-the...
After 1966, said the institute, Britain will face a choice between 1) economic "quasi-stagnation" and rising unemployment to hold down imports, or 2) a level of imports that will make it hard to repay on time the $2.5 billion it borrowed to defend sterling. There is just one way...