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...country men: "This is not only an urgent appeal of a million refugees from the north, nourishing the dream of liberating their native land. This is not only the ardent wish of thousands of families in the south with relatives who went to the north. This is also the fervent wish of the religious sects, and of the students . . . The push northward [is] an appropriate means of fulfilling our national history." Then the little general led the throng in loud shouts of "Bac lien!" ("To the north...
...began wooing Kong Le's men, mounting quick, vicious infantry actions against his positions on the Plain of Jars in hopes of grabbing territory. When a Pathet Lao gunman shot down Kong Le's top deputy, the idealistic neutralist was well on his way to becoming a fervent antiCommunist. The Reds pulled out of the coalition government when a left-leaning minister was assassinated by a neutralist soldier...
...notion behind the myth is that although Goldwater would almost certainly lose to Lyndon Johnson, he would remain the party's national leader, and his fervent followers, who believe their brand of Republicanism is the only kind, would take over the G.O.P. machinery for years to come...
Leader of the Revolutionary Committee was Rightist General Kouprasith Abhay, 38, a fervent anti-Communist and pillar of the local Rotary Club who won 1960's Battle of Vientiane; he thus blocked the neutralists and pro-Communist Pathet Lao, only to have his victory stalemated by the 1962 Geneva agreement that established Laos's neutralist regime. The coup leaders were a pair of strange birds, even for the wild aviary of Southeast Asia: Kouprasith is a nervous strongman with a pet baby elephant, an incipient ulcer and a reliance on sedatives; Siho plays the dandy, wears three gold...
...ailed the Times's coverage of its own home town. The mere fact that so many hands could be mustered so fast for any single story suggests to Rosenthal that a lot of Times reporters must have been sitting around the news room. It is Rosenthal's fervent conviction that the newsroom is the last place a reporter should be. News doesn't break there. In the seven months that Abe Rosenthal has been the Times's metropolitan editor, this conviction-and Timesmen's leg muscles-has gotten plenty of exercise...