Word: junes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Late. Early in June, B57 received intelligence photos snapped in Cambodia by another of its spies showing Agent Chuyen in conversation with a man known to be a high official in the North Vietnamese intelligence system, the CNC (Cue Nghien Cuu-Central Office for Research and Studies). Chuyen was picked up in Tay Ninh near the Cambodian border and brought to Nha Trang for "hard" interrogation. Later he was taken to Saigon, shot full of sodium pentothal and given a lie-detector test.The interrogations convinced the Green Berets that Chuyen was a double agent serving Hanoi as well...
...latest fight took place in the vicinity of the Dzungarïan Gates, the ancient traders' pass that was the scene of two brief but bitter encounters in June; two other skirmishes occurred in March and July farther to the east, along the Amur and Ussuri rivers separating eastern Siberia and Manchuria. In a protest to Moscow, Peking's foreign ministry charged last week that Soviet border guards had advanced 1¼ miles into Sinkiang's Yumin County and opened fire on Chinese guards carrying out "normal patrol duty." The Chinese fell back, they said afterward...
Newspaper eras, like political eras, depend on the men who make them. And Harry Romanoff, 73, who retired in June as an editor of Chicago's American after more than 40 years, was quite a man. His reporters tell, for instance, the time in 1966 when Richard Speck was accused of murdering eight nurses (missing only Corazon Amurao, a Filipina), Romy assumed an accent and began phoning around town as the Philippine consul. For a follow-up story, Romy decided to dig up details of the accused man's marriage and troubled early life. He got the phone...
...fact, had died, but one of Roman Catholicism's most articulate and progressive shepherds in the U.S. had been abruptly estranged from his flock. The Most Rev. James P. Shannon, who had resigned as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis earlier this year (TIME, June 6), last week announced that he had married. The wedding took place on Aug. 2, Shannon revealed, in the First Christian Church in Endicott, N.Y., before a Disciples of Christ minister. Shannon's bride, the former Ruth C. Wilkinson, 50, had had three previous husbands. Two of the marriages ended...
...currencies fared reasonably well. As expected, speculators sold British pounds and bought undervalued German marks, but not in quantities great enough to produce any crisis-not even after Britain at midweek published figures showing that its chronic trade deficit widened to $89 million in July from $60 million in June...