Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reports now filtering to the West talk of "communists" slaughtering innocent refugees from the central highlands abandoned by Thieu last week. But these reports are still incomplete; this latest bloodshed may well stem from the traditionally vicious rivalry between the Montangard highland tribes and the Vietnamese people rather than from deliberate policies...
...assault began with a series of attacks on bridges and roads leading from the Central Highlands to the coast-apparently an effort to cut the area's major cities and garrisons off from the rest of the country. The Communists overran six district capitals, three in the highland region, two in Military Region I and one in Military Region III, before zeroing in on their primary target: Ban Me Thuot, a sleepy Montagnard city of 80,000 and the capital of Darlac province, where in a quieter era the Emperor Bao Dai used to hunt for tiger...
...glorious Brahms," says Starker, "and it has been the dream of all cellists some day to be able to play it." No one, however, dared transcribe the violin work for cello, but early this year a transcription by Brahms himself was discovered. Last week at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Ill., Starker and Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder unveiled...
...volunteer is effective also because he can remain separated from local prejudices. The Peace Corps show a degree of respect for the Maya highland Indians which the Latin extensionists rarely use. For example, the customary Latin address to the Indian is the form 'vos'--the equivalent of saying 'boy' to a grown man. Volunteers always use the formal 'Usted' address...
...Highland, Kans...