Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calm and seemingly cool in 90° heat, the young woman walked down the red carpet at Pnompenh's Pochentong Airport, escorted by Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, all smiles and a torrent of French. An exotically garbed palace guard held a giant green parasol over their heads to screen them from the afternoon sun, and 200 schoolgirls in bright green sampots, the traditional skirts, sprinkled her path with fragrant rose and jasmine petals, which they carried in silver bowls-the Buddhist way, explained Sihanouk, of honoring very special guests...
...wartime present in Loc Ninh was embodied in four understrength Vietnamese irregular force companies and an American Special Forces unit, both of which were assigned to guard the town's airstrip and the district sub-sector headquarters, a rambling set of old French buildings and bunkers ringed by concertina wire and crowned by an improbable, rickety observation tower. Down the airstrip from the headquarters (see map) was an only slightly more substantial, diamond-shaped Special Forces camp, its walls made of logs and earthworks like something out of the old American West. To the Viet Cong's main...
...military parade to celebrate the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem went off without a missed beat, its resplendent display watched by Saigonese who lined the streets around Unity Square. First came a crack Vietnamese drill team, and overhead a flyby of jets, transports and helicopters. Then a combined honor guard of Thais, South Koreans, Nationalist Chinese, Filipinos, New Zealanders, Australians and Americans marched past, followed by combat troops and a 56-piece Korean army band. Finally the heavy equipment rolled out, from clanking M41 tanks to giant earth movers...
Walter J. Sullivan, member of an old-time Cambridge political family, should have little trouble gaining re-election. In the past, he has usually been the top man. Al Vellucci slipped to fourth place in 1965, but he has campaigned hard this year to guard East Cambridge against all comers...
...satchel. The Spaniards, who are the dominant influence in Andorran life, were irked that he had refused to meet his Spanish Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgel, except at an out-of-the-way church. The bishop remained in Spain. De Gaulle also upset the Andorran elders, who zealously guard their privileges, by urging them to relax the strict rules that deny citizenship to two-thirds of Andorra's 15,000 residents. And he winced visibly when the Andorrans broke into a game but off-key rendering of La Marseillaise...