Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...this was quite bewildering to Walter, who would ease up to the nearest basket of pretzels, slip it stealthily under his coat, and go home to share it with his wife as they watched people winning thousands of dollars on "Treasure Hunt" and trading away a new Cadillac Eldorado for the oxcart behind The Curtain That Carol is Pointing To on "Let's Make a Deal...
...persistent suspicions is that the CIA helped engineer the murder of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem when he was overthrown in a military uprising in 1963. No solid evidence of such a tie has been found, and indeed Watergate Criminals Charles Colson and E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA agent, tried to fabricate cables linking the death to orders of President Kennedy when files at their disposal turned up no such evidence. But TIME has found credible sources who insist that the CIA was involved in assassination plots against at least three figures...
...Endless Hunt. Grindinger had little time to make his final choice. Last Wednesday was D-day for signing a national letter of intent, the formal document with which high school seniors pledge themselves to one school. For Notre Dame and scores of other colleges, there is no more costly or critical contest than the annual quest for signatures. Nor, for less scrupulous schools, is there a dirtier sport (TIME, Jan. 21,1974). The reason: failure to get enough of the right names on the dotted line can mean disaster in the stadium. "Recruiting is the lifeblood of a college program...
Brian Boulac, 33, a 1960-62 Notre Dame end, has been living with that pressure for a decade. For him, the high-stakes competition boils down to a numbing succession of airplanes, strange faces and out-of-focus films of high school games. The hunt never stops. As soon as one class of recruits signs, the search for the next starts. At Notre Dame the pace is killing because the school recruits from coast to coast, yet has no full-time scouts. As a result, all eight assistant coaches live a double life...