Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways, however, the latest refugees are worse off than their predecessors, who came with the first wave of Indochinese refugees after South Viet Nam fell. While earlier refugees often brought some money with them, most of the latest immigrants have bartered their cash for their lives and must begin penniless. According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the newcomers are generally less educated and less likely to speak English. The GAO found that "some refugees, particularly some Hmong Laotians, cannot read or write in their own languages and are virtually unexposed to Western culture." They must...
...spending. The director pores over the day's takes until after midnight and sleeps only three or four hours a night. "I have no private life," maintains Cimino, who is a bachelor. Says the film's cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond (who also shot The Deer Hunter), "Michael fell in love with this film...
...police last year arrested Cornell Warren, 20, for reckless driving, cuffed his hands behind his back and took him to headquarters. Along the way, Warren suddenly dashed down the street, with Patrolman Thomas Bowe close behind. In the scuffle that followed, Bowe's revolver went off and Warren fell, fatally wounded. Bowe's attorney argued that the shooting was accidental, and last week a jury acquitted the officer of murder...
Ever since Saigon fell in 1975, Viet Nam has been almost completely closed to Americans. In the past month, though, Hanoi's leaders have welcomed successive visits by two U.S. congressional delegations in a renewed campaign to win friends in Washington and secure U.S. diplomatic recognition. TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, who accompanied one of the groups, was permitted to stay on in the Communist capital through last week. His report...
...deter harmful acts that are willful or wanton, punitive damages are added to however much money it takes to compensate the victims' families. To prove to a jury, as Kreindler puts it, that American and McDonnell Douglas "knew it was only a matter of time before the airplane fell apart," Kreindler will have to amass mountains of persuasive evidence...