Word: lai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt against the government, and the now-dominant army leaders huffily withdrew their ambassador to Peking for "consultation." Peking has fallen into disrepute in most of Africa, where it has failed to produce on its big promises of aid. Even hard-lining, Peking-backing Albania (which Chou En-lai called "the flower garden of socialism") is showing symptoms of a turn politically and economically away from China and toward its Eastern European neighbors...
...Operation White Wing, mounted by 12,000 men of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry, Vietnamese airborne and South Korean marines, the first division-size assault of the war. Target: the longtime Viet Cong strongholds between Qui Nhon and Chu Lai along the South China...
...longer losing the war." But neither are we winning. All of our successful operations have been confined to the central plains area, 300 miles northeast of Saigon, a region settled largely by Catholic refugees from the North and hardly a Viet Cong stronghold; or in areas like Chu Lai where American seapower provides tactical support unavailable inland. Even where we have "destroyed" the enemy, guerillas have repeatedly re-infiltrated after the completion of operations. Pacification of conquered territory will require much larger commitments of troops than we have made thus...
...return to Washington of Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, who had traveled 30,000 miles, visited twelve countries. Harriman was the farthest flying of all the emissaries Johnson sent out. With him when he returned was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who had flown to India for Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's funeral and then visited Saigon for talks with South Vietnamese and U.S. leaders. Neither official could disguise his disillusion...
...that remained of Lai Bahadur Shastri was a small pile of ashes on the bank of New Delhi's Jumna River. Even as the nation mourned the death of its gentle leader, the search began for a successor. At week's end, as India's leading politicians huddled in one meeting after another, it seemed likely that the choice would fall on a candidate with a magical legacy in Indian politics: Indira Gandhi, 48, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru...