Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course there are formidable barriers to this approach. A constituency of educators and parents would have to fight the Boston School Committee's vested interest in vocational education. Companies would have to organize large-scale training programs, which many firms have already done. Boston and its suburbs would have to build direct transportation from the central city to Route 128, where many of the expanding industries are located. But this public transportation is necessary anyway to fill the skilled worker demand in the 128 firms...
...Vietnamese victory. Two companies of a Ranger battalion were moving along a canal line 22 miles southwest of the Delta's largest city, Can Tho, when they ran into two Viet Cong battalions: the local force U Minh 10 and the 303rd main force unit. In a fierce fight that raged through most of one day, the South Vietnamese killed 265 of the V.C., and supporting helicopters and fighter-bombers accounted for another 100 dead. The total of 365 enemy dead was the largest ever inflicted in a Delta battle, with more probably to come as fighting continued...
...Constantine, 27, has gone along with the coup in hopes of influencing the colonels some day to hand back control to civilians. Does he now feel strong enough to risk his crown by openly defying them? And if he tries to replace them, would the colonels go quietly or fight to retain power? The junta is, after all, tough, dedicated and still convinced that it has acted in the best interests of Greece. The one thing that appears certain is that Greece in coming weeks will be increasingly the site of a major test of wills and wiles...
...Parade, Stem, Mondadori publications, the London Sunday Times and the Times of India. The group took pains to establish the authenticity of the material. Besides the verification of Che's handwriting, the fact that there was so much of it was reassuring. "How did they have time to fight?" wondered Parade Managing Editor Ed Kiester, who went to La Paz. "It looks as though all they did was write about each other and take pictures...
...consortium fell apart. One reason was that some of its members feared a court battle over the ownership of the diary. The Bolivian government, to be sure, had issued a decree claiming it owned all documents captured from the guerrillas. But Che's family might make a fight for the diary. There was the additional danger of pirated versions being circulated before the consortium members could publish. Already, several Bolivian army officers had made photocopies. Whoever finally buys the diary, it will probably be February at the earliest before readers around the world can learn what...