Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAIGON: Spotted around the capital are three divisions that are generally conceded to be South Viet Nam's most ineffectual. A U.S. general calls the 5th "absolutely the worst outfit I've ever seen," and a Vietnamese General Staff member was quoted as saying that until last year the 25th was "the worst division ever to enter any battlefield east of Suez." In the past year, both divisions have improved slightly, as has the lightly regarded 18th Division. Now that the U.S. is withdrawing the 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, the defense of Saigon rests...
...agenda committee last week, she politely cut off Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik in the middle of a routine procedural debate, ordered a vote on the matter and went on to new business. "The U.N. could and should remain the best means of international cooperation that has ever been at mankind's disposal," she says. Then, as though speaking of one of her children, she adds: "But we have to nurse and cherish and cultivate...
...runner-up to the Christian Democrats (C.D.U.) in every federal election since 1949. Only 33 months ago, the Socialists left the opposition benches and became junior partners in a Grand Coalition under Christian Democratic Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger. This year their pre-election showing has been the most formidable ever...
...France, the term la rentree does not refer only to spacemen plunging back into the earth's atmosphere but also to vacationers returning to the daily grind from their month-long August break. This year, re-entry for millions of Frenchmen was as rough as it ever was for an astronaut in his red-hot cap sule. For none was it more painful than President Georges Pompidou...
...bicentennial of Napoleon's birth last month, Pompidou pointed out: "In fact, he did not find happiness and, let me add, never bestowed it on France. However, despite the lack of happiness, he attained the pinnacles of grandeur, and endowed France with it to such a point that ever since our people have not resigned themselves to mediocrity and always answered the appeal to honor." Continued Pompidou, in an obvious reference to De Gaulle: "Our most recent history was a striking demonstration of this, once more thanks to the action of an exceptional...