Word: exitement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highest priorities of the Nixon Administration has always been the search for what one of its officials calls "a decent exit" from Viet Nam. Washington had hoped that next month's presidential election in that country would have provided such an avenue. A hard-fought campaign and honest balloting could have signified a long step toward open and competitive democracy, vindicating Nixon's policy of Vietnamization and justifying a stepped-up U.S. withdrawal. But last week President Nguyen Van Thieu killed any lingering hopes for such a success. By ordering opponent Vice President Nguyen...
...which soon became the most controversial journal in Saigon. He traveled to Paris and called for the withdrawal of foreign troops and the establishment of a neutral provisional government in Viet Nam. Since then, he has had nothing but trouble. Duc was labeled a Communist lackey and denied an exit visa for other overseas trips. Tin Sang has twice been bombed, has had its presses drenched with gasoline and acid and set afire, and its editions have been confiscated 150 times; the latest two crackdowns came only last week. Beyond all that,Duc's house in Vinh Binh...
...instant symbol of cold war realities. The Western capitals were paralyzed; to respond would be to risk thermonuclear war. Yet in accepting the Berlin Wall, the West was forced to live with the fact that families would be divided and a whole people would be left with no exit. That a city of 3,000,000-2,000,000 of them sealed in the Western sector -should be slashed in two by wire and watchtowers still seems fantastic. But to Berliners the barrier has become oddly familiar, a topic of conversation only on the still frequent occasions when a would...
...rebellions, though little noted in the world press, have been nearly as energetic as the university riots of 1968, in which students disrupted Paris and hastened De Gaulle's exit from public life. One day in February, 15,000 Paris lycée students spontaneously took over the Latin Quarter's Boulevard St. Michel and stayed put for seven hours in defiance of the Minister of the Interior, who had outlawed the demonstration. They dispersed only after a judge reversed a lower-court ruling and freed 19-year-old Gilles Guiot, who had been jailed on flimsy charges...
Whatever his motive, the tardy person always runs the risks of mistiming and misjudgment; it takes an expert in unpunctuality to know how late is too late. The novice may find that his grand entrance coincides with a general exit, or that his quest for invisibility puts him instead into a pitiless spotlight of glares...