Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grave Consequences
...infiltration of terrorists from the North, Washington's preoccupation with Pueblo caused friction between the U.S. and South Korea. After a spate of Korean protest demonstrations, editorials and official statements, the U.S. dispatched Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance to Seoul as a special presidential emissary empowered to discuss the "grave threat" from the North. In addition, Johnson went out of his way to laud "this steadfast ally" when he made his request for special military aid to South Korea. By week's end the handholding operation appeared to have been successful, and the U.S. was able to get on with...
From that quick, cunning act came the threat of a second war front in Asia-one which the U.S., hard pressed in Viet Nam, can scarcely afford. Apart from fueling anti-American polemics from Paris to Pyongyang, the incident raised grave questions in the West about the Johnson Administration's ability to prevent or respond effectively to Communist military initiatives in Southeast Asia or beyond...
...dinner, he sat his guests in a circle and offered bangui, palm wine, in a traditional ceremony. People tend to forget the observances and even the shell of custom, he told the guests. "My great-grandfather is buried on the hill, and now the school has covered over the grave. Things have been changing quickly. But this is all right," he said, "as long as people remember that the bones are still there...
...crisscrossed the erstwhile White Man's Grave, dropping in on the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, the Congo, Zambia and Ethiopa-with Somalia, Kenya and Tunisia also on the itinerary-not even the fabled spirit of WAWA could put Humphrey down. WAWA, short for West Africa Wins Again, is invoked by exasperated voyagers as the malefic author of all sub-Saharan hang-ups, and it struck frequently. Hubert smilingly brushed it aside...