Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coup Attempt. The U.S. had hoped that it would be obvious to the South Vietnamese that a fair and vigorously contested election would knock down Hanoi's persistent charge that the Saigon government is a puppet of Washington. A willingness to allow diverse elements to compete for governmental power might also have convinced Hanoi that the time had come to negotiate seriously for a peace settlement. But as Thieu reaches for greater power by grasping all available governmental levers, dissidence grows, the possibility of a military coup becomes more real, and Hanoi may be tempted to continue to stall...
...even more business than Juarez did at its apogee. What they need, they say, is proper promotion, and the Dominican Republic has already snared its first celebrity. Actor Elliott Gould flashed through the court last month to dissolve his marriage to Barbra Streisand. "I don't want to knock Mexico," says Espinosa, "but the system had become too mechanical." When he leads his flock into the marbled courthouse, Espinosa carefully points out the crucifix in the court signifying, he says, "the presence...
Nearing the moon, the astronauts performed yet another new maneuver by firing an explosive tape to knock the panel off a section of the service module called SIM (for scientific instrument module). An innovation on Apollo 15, SIM is literally a high-flying laboratory: it contains eight different scientific instruments, including a tiny (78.5 Ibs.) subsatellite, two spectrometers and two special lunar mapping cameras...
Today and the News compete frenetically with each other, adjusting their play of various stories from one edition to the next to upstage, knock down or merely copy the opposition. Occasionally, says a Today staffer, "We've dropped our main story to pick up the Daily News lead story, and we've found in the second edition that they have picked up the story that we have dropped and dropped the story that we have picked up. It's fantastic." On a recent day, Today's first edition front-paged HUNT TWO IN SUBURBAN CRIME SPREE...
...treatment of Ky, while undoubtedly deserved, illustrates Washington's desire to manipulate its Saigon allies. FUTILITY OF BOMBING. After the bombing of military installations and transportation facilities in North Viet Nam failed to cripple the Communist war effort, President Johnson acceded to the military's request to knock out the country's oil supplies. Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr. had predicted that such action "would either bring the enemy to the conference table or cause the insurgency to wither." During the summer of 1966, U.S. warplanes destroyed at least 70% of North Viet...