Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Nguyen Van Thieu appealed for the American help to which he was entitled by the Paris treaty--and to which South Viet Nam had grown addicted. But the U.S. Congress, long since weary of Viet Nam, refused it. On April 21, Thieu resigned and a few days later flew to Taipei, reportedly shipping out a retirement fund of 3 1/2 tons of gold...
...also gassed themselves. As Journalist David Butler writes in his new book The Fall of Saigon, "They forgot that a settling helicopter sucks up air. So the last official Americans out of Viet Nam, the eleven Marines and the crew of the CH-46, including the pilot--all flew blind out of Saigon...
...eight Oscars were not a record; 1959's Ben-Hur set the mark with eleven little gold-plated statues. But it was a triumphant rebound for Forman, 53, the Czechoslovak director whose five awards in 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were followed by two commercial disappointments, Hair and Ragtime. "The Academy members are fans of people like Milos who take chances and succeed," says Director Ivan Passer, one of Forman's best friends. "They like Cinderella stories, and they like to make them come true. That was in their power this year, and they...
...House is playing one scene at a time, hoping to put together a string of successes like the one last week. "This was the first real test as to whether it's a healthy or a lame duck," said White House Congressional Liaison W. Dennis Thomas. "And this bird flew...
...accused him of cooperating with the Israelis. That left hundreds of Ethiopian Jews, known as Falashas, stranded in Sudan after making the long trek to refugee camps there. Last week, however, in an operation coordinated by the Central Intelligence Agency, about ten U.S. C-130 military transport planes flew into Sudan and took an estimated 900 Falashas to Israel for resettlement...