Word: forayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embargo on reporting the fact that an embargo had been imposed. In Washington only a handful of top policymakers knew what was up anyway. This time, there was none of the hour-by-hour agonizing at Camp David that contributed to the tense atmosphere in Washington during the Cambodian foray. Nixon, in fact, left for a long weekend at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands...
...Hanoi pulls its estimated 50,000 troops out of Laos). Souvanna has been under severe pressure from right-wing elements in Laos to scuttle the peace talks; last week he accused the Communists of using the negotiations to disguise preparations for a general offensive in Laos. An allied military foray into Laos could be aimed at the Communists, who control the eastern half of the country, or it could be aimed at strengthening Souvanna's hand against the right...
Scammon and Wattenberg's dismissal of the Southern Strategy was certainly confirmed. Any movement by the Republican Party, they warn, "toward a Southern Strategy, capitalizing on antiblack feelings, toward capturing the Wallace vote to build an emerging Republican majority," would backfire-an apt description of the Republican midterm foray into the South. Of the sixteen races for Governorship and the Senate in the Southern and Border States, the Republicans...
Creator of a haunting Kafkaesque nightmare, The Woman in the Dunes, and an existential detective story, The Ruined Map, Author Kobo Abe has the traditional Japanese knack of taking familiar literary inputs and converting them into exotically fascinating readouts. His latest effort is a fictional foray into political science fiction...
...farm settlements in the Jordan valley were under almost nightly Katyusha rocket attack, and fedayeen commandos killed two soldiers in an army outpost on the Lebanese border. Israel sent bombers against fedayeen positions on the foothills of Mount Hermon and in Jordan. It also dispatched troops on a short foray into southern Lebanon, where the raiders blew up three houses suspected of serving as fedayeen bases...