Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French banned the party, and Giap-together with scores of other Communists-fled to China. There he met Ho Chi Minh and became a charter member of a group that the French will long remember: the Viet Minh. His assignment, based largely on his blackboard battlegrounds, was to organize Ho's ragtag guerrillas into a fighting army. That was in 1941, and Giap has been in charge of the army ever since...
...with a journalist of the Soviet news agency Novosti, the captain and first officer of a Soviet "fishing boat," and a Soviet adviser to Cuban intelligence. In one such meeting last year, Raúl said, Rudolf P. Shliapnikov, second secretary of the Soviet embassy in Havana, assured the group that Russia could bring Castro to his knees by simply cutting off oil shipments. "Rodolfo made his observation," Raúl noted dryly, "in the midst of laughter...
Call for Peace Talks. At week's end, none of the group was laughing. After a quick drumhead trial in Havana's La Cabaña fortress, Escalante and 36 of his fellow conspirators were found guilty of treason and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years (Escalante got the maximum). Though Fidel himself kept silent, he did not seem ready to split with Russia and lose his $1,000,000-a-day dole. Cuban Minister Without Portfolio Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking for Castro, called for ideological peace talks with Moscow; after all, he noted...
...best estimates, it administers 250 pension funds with assets totaling about $7 billion. All its stock trading decisions are initiated by one man: Carl Hathaway, 34, a Harvard graduate. He weighs the recommendations of the bank's analysts, makes his choices, and then presents them to a small group of senior officers-who almost always go along with his advice. Morgan has concentrated one-third of its equity investments in just ten stocks, the names of which are a well-guarded secret. Hathaway and men like him are not averse to selling any stocks that fail...
...think we want to go where the Beatles have gone," says Barry Gibb, 21, eldest of the brothers who form three-fifths of the group. "They've ruined their minds." "Kids growing up now would like someone to love and idolize," echoes Maurice, 18. Right, says his twin brother Robin...