Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These words are spoken by three representatives of Viet Nam's peasant millions who have lived with war in their homeland for more than 20 years. Their stories were collected in 1965 and 1966 in a series of interviews by Susan Sheehan, a New Yorker writer and the wife of Neil Sheehan, who was a New York Times correspondent in Saigon. In addition to this Vietnamese trio, seven other people are presented in the book: a landlord, a Montagnard, an orphan, a Buddhist monk, a Viet Cong, a South Vietnamese soldier, a politician...
...been seeking to buy an additional $29 million worth of wheat and vegetable oil under the easy payment terms of the Food-for-Peace program. However, as a result of two restrictive amendments passed by the last session of Congress, the flow of food to Tito's homeland has been mired, and finally halted, by an obscure bridge buster called the Findley Amendment...
...medical school in Bombay. But later she sighed: "It would be almost impossible to get back to my studies-too many interviews and disturbances." So she agreed to go along with Bob Hope's Christmas troupe to Viet Nam, and that caused quite a disturbance in her neutralist homeland. Before long, even the Indian Foreign Office was pressuring her to cancel out so as not to lend her country's name to the U.S. war effort. After brooding on the matter, Reita announced: "If the show were going to Viet Nam, the Viet Cong or even the moon...
Died. Alice Masaryk, 87, daughter of the first President of Czechoslovakia, and sister of Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk (who mysteriously fell to his death from a window in Prague shortly after Communists seized power), herself a notable figure in her homeland as head of the Czech Red Cross before World War II when she fled to the U.S.; of a stroke; in Chicago...
...newcomers are Americans. That seems only fitting, for the father of the U.S. gave Barbados an enthusiastic endorsement. In 1751-be fore he stopped liking things British-George Washington pronounced himself "perfectly ravished" by the island. It was the only place that he ever slept outside his homeland...