Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Nelson Rockefeller, one of the few Washington officials to say publicly what others were conceding privately. "I guess a lot of Vietnamese are going to die." Somewhat bitterly, he added, "For us, we go on living." Later, Rockefeller insisted that his "too late" view applied only to the fate of the refugees. Yet, while the Saigon government might shake up its personnel, and perhaps even rally some effective defense of the city and the Mekong Delta, its long-range military fate appeared sealed. The Communists, now superior in both firepower and manpower, could take their time in striking...
...collapse quickly. It is likely to do so in any case when U.S. aid runs out at the end of April; Congress is not expected to grant President Ford's request for an additional $222 million when it reconvenes this week. The fact that the city's fate is virtually sealed may be one reason that the Khmer Rouge show no willingness to negotiate with Saukam Khoy, whom Sihanouk has placed on his latest list of "supertraitors" earmarked for execution...
...early 1940s, at the height of the Japanese invasion of China, Chiang Kai-shek wrote a book about China's past "humiliation" and future "reconstruction." He titled it China's Destiny, but Chiang might have called it My Destiny. He saw little distinction between his own fate and that of the giant, sprawling, poverty-stricken land that he ruled for just over 20 years. All his life, the lean and ambitious soldier fought bravely, though in the end vainly, to shape history to his personal specifications. When he died of a heart attack last week...
Meanwhile Gill was busy directing the lives of his flock: women's skirts must be below the knee and men must grow beards. Gill also came to see Henry Kissinger as the Antichrist because he was a powerful man whose actions affected the fate of Israel, and he sent such fiery spiritual threats in telegrams to President Nixon that the Secret Service paid him a visit. Local clergy inquired quietly about Gill's sanity...
...tragic fate of Chile is a message to the world that recent U.S. administrations will tolerate no interference with the exploitation of the Third World--or indeed of any of the weaker nations--by American business...