Word: kept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter-bombers and helicopters as they doggedly kept moving toward the city. Some who were captured were only 13 and 14 years...
...Eden. He lives with the increasing fear not only that he will not be invited to return to his throne but that Greece's ruling junta might do away with the monarchy altogether. The Greeks are not notoriously pro-monarchy to begin with, and the junta has skillfully kept Constantine in an ambivalent position as to his eventual fate. This situation has caused the King to remain silent and mostly out of sight even as his country slips farther from his grasp. With no pressures of his own to apply, he can only hope not to antagonize the junta...
...King and the regime, though exceedingly taut, remain open. Constantine has two aides with him in exile, and they shuttle between his headquarters and Athens with messages concerning such sensitive subjects as money. So far, the junta has continued to pay 150 servants and drivers who have been kept on at the palace in Athens and at various residences since the King's departure. The junta has put no limit on any personal funds the King might want to take out of Greece. For his own part, though, the King seems eager to show that he is living...
Meanwhile, the campus was being kept in ferment by Rudd, an improbable young revolutionary from a middle-class neighborhood in Maplewood, N.J., whose father deals in real estate, is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Capable of inflammatory rhetoric on an improvised platform but often disarmingly polite with his professorial elders. Mark Rudd is a B +average junior majoring in European history. A one time Boy Scout troop leader, Rudd joined the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society last year, lives in an off-campus apartment adorned with posters of Mao and Che (he visited Cuba...
...been riding in a jeep around Saigon when they noticed a column of smoke rising above the Cholon section. Heading for the smoke, they soon found themselves moving through a stream of refugees fleeing the Viet Cong. Some tried to warn them with shouts of "V.C.! V.C.!", but they kept going until they arrived at an empty intersection-and then it was too late. Cantwell, who was driving, tried to put the jeep in reverse. Before he could, two Viet Cong opened fire. Palmos jumped out of the jeep, ran, staggered and pretended to fall dead. He watched...