Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West. Some unusual glimpses, however, were recently accorded TIME's Canadian National Correspondent James Wilde, who accompanied a trade and diplomatic delegation from Ottawa on a ten-day tour of China. During an evening of conversation at a restaurant overlooking Peking's Shi Cha Hai lake, a high-ranking official and party member who asked to remain anonymous talked at length and with uncommon frankness to Wilde. Excerpts...
...central Saigon government. Lacking the unlimited support of a wealthy superpower, the NLF was forced to rely on the support of the villagers. The 1968 Hue massacre which has reached legendary status in American propaganda, was indiscriminate, but as Frances Fitzgerald notes in her acclaimed book, Fire in the Lake, the Hue massacre seems to have been the work of troops gone beserk. Unlike the indiscriminate terror of the United States and Saigon governments, the killing at Hue was not ordered by responsible officials. Can we say the same for the continuing massacre committed by American planes...
Another side benefit is aesthetic. BART's 34 stations are designed to be bright and appealing-quite a change from the usual dreary transit stop. The main station at Lake Merritt even has a pool and a plaza. About a third of its extra-wide tracks will be underground and out of sight. Another third will use freeway medians, and the rest will be elevated on graceful concrete columns. BART has spent $7.5 million on landscaping alone...
...potato and fries a steak out in the backyard under a big old magnolia tree most Saturday nights "just like everybody else," and Alvin Berg, from McClusky, N. Dak., an undertaker, reads the daily newspapers (no books) and uses his spare time to pursue the walleyed pike in Brush Lake just like so many of his neighbors...
...blue and white banners blazing a trail to the Munich Games. On the horizon, the bright blue Bavarian sky is pierced by the futuristic Olympic Tower, a 943-ft. skymark for the Games. Below, sprawling over 740 undulating acres, is the Olympic Park, a verdant retreat with a boating lake, broad tree-lined walkways and facilities for more than two-thirds of the 195 events* on the Olympic agenda. Three of the largest venues are partially under one "roof," an expansive sweep of acrylic glass that drapes over the landscape like a free-form circus tent. Though striking, the roof...