Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help build a disciple family is to make sure that parents and children never stop doing meaningful things together. Family games, hikes, building projects and political debates-such activities underline adult skills that children then naturally want to have. Just because evening meals get tense is no reason to quit them; there is no better ritual for spotting and curing the tensions. A San Francisco family has no fear of the kids' trying drugs; everyone does volunteer work together at the narcotics-control center...
...march on foot to relieve Dak Son would lead through a wild and deep ravine separating the burning hamlet from Song Be. It meant three miles on a tortuous and twisting trail in the darkness-and an almost certain Viet Cong ambush. Dak Son's only outside help during its long night of terror and death was a single C-47 Dragonship that hovered over the hamlet, spraying the surrounding fields with its mini-guns. The grim gunners had no need of flares to spot their targets...
...would lead Greece back to parliamentary rule. Andreas Papandreou, old George's fiery son, who is under arrest on a charge of conspiring to commit treason, is now willing, according to his American wife Margaret, to go into exile in return for his release. His departure would certainly help to cool the political climate...
...have money," he told his guests, "and you will have your share if you join us. If not, we will go on without you." The chiefs were eager to help, especially since the Republicans' Egyptian defenders had been ordered home. They quickly agreed to mobilize their tribes, and to seal the agreement they devoured a great mound of lamb and rice proffered by the prince. Last week the Royalist siege of San'a began...
...Republicans claimed to be holding their own, but their position was perilous. Even though it boasts Russian equipment-including a few MIG-19s-the Republican army is no match for the Royalists' mountain tribesmen, who are the fiercest warriors in Yemen. Nor can the Republicans expect help from Nasser, whose last troops left in the middle of last week's fighting. Although the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram charged that the CIA was behind the Royalists, the government made it plain that it considers the fighting essentially a "domestic Yemeni affair." Thus, after years of stalemate, the Yemeni civil...