Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents, these children that "see" and "hear" in dramatic new ways seem ethereal. In her final letter, Martha writes of such children on her own island, "These seven children are our--but we have no word for it. The nearest to it is that they are our guardians. They guard us." More remarkable still, these children of violence are born free of the curse of violence. And when one exceptional child does want to fight, "the children regarded him as some sort of unfortunate born with the need to quarrel as if as might have had a harelip...
This time, however, the old seasonal formula no longer worked. Despite the rains and monsoon-swept lines of communication, seven North Vietnamese battalions, backed by ten Soviet-built light tanks, fell on Muong Soui in late June, catching the garrison completely off guard. U.S. airpower was not enough to stop the Communists. For a while, the government's defenders held onto a new position on Route 7, but were pushed out again after losing all of their big guns. Five days after the battle began, the Laotians evacuated Muong Soui. Later efforts to retake it failed...
...keeping 12,000 troops in the country. Not so, said Souvanna. There were only North Vietnamese "imperialists" in Laos, and they were there to "colonize and expand." U.S. intelligence estimates that North Viet Nam had more than 40,000 troops in Laos, mostly in the eastern portion where they guard the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...succeed Stewart L. Udall as Secretary of the Interior - a job that Udall had performed with such ecological sensitivity that many thought he should be called Secretary of the Environment. At first glance, Hickel was so depressingly different that some reacted as if Satan had been promoted to guard St. Peter's gate...
Miss Stanley refused to comment about the reasons for her charges, but the police report said that she had been arrested for distributing "highly inflammatory leaflets." The report also said that the leaflet called the police and the national guard that had partially occupied the town during the uprising, "pigs...