Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone tries to stop a Marine "leg" from going to class, or that some sorry, smelly, social reject tries to plant a Viet Cong cross next to the artificial leg of a Seabee, or spits in the burned face of an Army medic. I guarantee that it will only happen once...
What will happen? If the Soviets could have their way, they would excommunicate the Chinese from international Communism, get a resounding endorsement for the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and re-establish Moscow as the undisputed leader of the world movement. But the hosts are certain to have to settle for much less than that...
...turns favorable, there are no indications that Peking will accept a seat until its terms for entering the U.N. are met; Peking insists that it be absolved of the Korean War aggressor label and that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists be expelled. Neither is likely to happen soon...
...ceiling plaster and moldings. Finally, almost diffidently, he walked up to the counter and cleared his throat. "Yes, sir? What can I do for you?" inquired the receptionist. The spy plunked Fielding's Travel Guide down on the counter. "My name," he announced, "is Temple Fielding. I happen to write this book here. Perhaps you've heard of it. I wonder if I could see the manager...
...Hanoi has privately agreed to President Nixon's insistence on simultaneous mutual pullouts. The North Vietnamese insist, however, on maintaining the fiction of victory. While continuing to demand unilateral U.S. withdrawal, they would simply negotiate their own private "unilateral" pull-out with South Viet Nam-which would just happen to correspond with the U.S. schedule. On the issue of interim authority in the South, the major stumbling block, the U.S. has given up its demand that elections for a permanent government be controlled by the present Saigon regime. That, to be sure, is still a long way from agreeing...