Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most nations in wartime, South Viet Nam's women also serve-sometimes even as tactical consultants. Frequently a soldier's wife, on the advice of her astrologer, will tell her husband when to go into battle and when to stay home. The husbands listen. Officers' wives follow their husbands to the battlefield and sometimes share their fate. Duong Thi Kim Thanh was a former airborne nurse and South Viet Nam's first woman parachutist. She regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock...
...difficult thing to support the blacks," Hoffman said, "when we had put in a lot of time and work and had a lot of ability that was never called upon. But it was a good thing for us as whites to follow the leadership of blacks in their fight...
Most of the newcomers are biologists, chemists, biochemists, and even mathematicians and physicists, who were going their own way, quietly planning to go to graduate school and follow some line of research that interested them. Then they looked up and found a man in a uniform standing in front of them. And they didn't really feel like going...
...heavy arms. The first consignment will consist of two minesweepers and 60 aircraft, including 22 F-102 Delta Daggers and five F-104 Starfighters. Though Washington tries to insist that the ban is only partly lifted, other heavy equipment, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, most likely will follow. Making the most of Greece's new strategic importance, the junta is demanding a 50% increase in U.S. aid, which prior to the coup had been averaging $65 million per year...
Those convictions, as his novel, Los Encartelados (The Poster People), makes clear, center on the theme of democratic government for his country. And his hopes, as outlined in the book, are that a few, then hundreds and eventually thousands of Spaniards will follow in his footsteps. Eventually, so his vision goes, the streets of Spain will be jammed each Sunday by the encartelados bearing silent but effective witness to the dream of change. Initially, just as his book predicts, the public reaction in Madrid was sympathetic but skeptical. "It might work elsewhere," a student said, "but it's like...