Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting at his house with 13 retired officer-politicians. In April, the group presented a petition to Aref for extensive reforms, including general elections within two years. When Aref balked, Al-Bakr and his friends began meticulously to plan last week's coup. They executed it with the help of the air force and even of Arefs trusted presidential guards. There was practically no bloodshed; the only marks of battle were a few bullet holes in the palace...
Several months after he took over as President last December, Jorge Pacheco Areco started remarking, only half-jokingly, that Uruguay's problems were such that he needed "a little help from heaven" to solve them. Someone up there must like him. Last week torrential rains ended a six-month drought that had ravaged Uruguay's cattle and sheep, a chief source of income, and badly damaged the economy. Rebellious students who had seized the University of Montevideo and held it for four days finally agreed to leave peacefully. And Uruguay's third general strike in a month...
...became entangled in Viet Nam by small degrees, the U.S. is not anxious to involve itself in any major way in Thailand's attempts to put down the insurgency. Nonetheless, while Thai soldiers go off to Viet Nam, the U.S. has quietly mounted an effort to help Thailand fight the Communists in the north. It consists of a small and unique U.S. military force, the 606th Air Commando Squadron, whose 66 members wear no uniforms and carry no guns. Their mission is to help the Thai government win allegiance from Northeasterners by supplying needed services, including medical...
Monsoon rains have turned the roads to quagmires in the Northeast, but the Commandos press on, moving from village to village in Japanese-made Jeeps, or rented oxcarts if the going gets too heavy. A Thai official goes along to explain that "our government has asked these foreigners to help us." The medics give shots, dress wounds and treat minor diseases, including dysentery. Their long-term aim is to teach the Thais these skills and so to work them selves out of jobs...
...been killed. But there have been some unnerving moments, When he first went to live in a village, Technical Sergeant Kermit H. Moffett, 30, was greeted by the sight of a schoolteacher hanging dead in a tree, a victim of Communist terrorism. But Moffett stayed on, providing medical help and living just as the Thais did. Communist propaganda teams twice came to the village to hold meetings, but both times they left Moffett alone. He had become too popular with the villagers to be attacked. At another village, Sergeant Jim Stensgard, 21, was told that a Communist agent was stirring...