Word: lai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allows that Lyndon Johnson is "one of the most dynamic Presidents the U.S. has ever had." Unsurprisingly, the journalistic encomiums heralded Pakistan President Mohammed Ayub Khan's arrival in Washington this week. India's newspapers also started lauding Lyndon last week, after it was announced that Premier Lai Bahadur Shastri will land in the U.S. on Feb. 1 for the Indian statesman's first U.S. visit...
Next came a riverboat foray in the Mekong Delta ("We took some sniper fire"). After that, Owen got his chance to go out with the 1st Infantry in the "boonies" near Lai Khe. Save for Providence Journal stitched over his left shirt pocket, he was garbed-and armed -like every other foot slogger in the detachment...
...ambushed-and thereby lure the Communist ambushers into a giant ambush of allied design. The prey: some 3,700 veteran Viet Cong troops who have been roaming at will up and down the province of Quang Tin between the coastal Marine enclaves at Danang and Chu Lai. The province, for more than a year a hardcore Communist stronghold beyond the reach of government troops, is a paddy-checkered producer of rice used to feed enemy troops. It is harvest time. And Viet Cong control of the region has made Route One-the natural north-south highway between Danang...
Last week, as Washington prepared for U.S. visits from Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan (on Dec. 14) and India's Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri (in early 1966), the Administration was ready to put the tough new foreign-aid line to its sternest test...
Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's miss-a-meal campaign is one part of an official food-conservation program. Another was an appeal to farmers to grow two crops a year instead of only one-or three instead of two. In his speeches, Shastri often cries Jai Kisan! (Hail Farmer!) giving farmers equal billing with the soldiers on the Pakistan battlelines in the fight to save India. Shastri has also asked city dwellers to raise whatever food they can. "A well-kept garden should be a matter of pride to every household," he says. Obeying his own advice...