Word: lat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this second and last part of an interview conducted at Harvard lat week, Mr. Lacerda comments on his view of contemporary Brazilian politics, their implications for the United State, and his own plans to organize a popular progressive party to return his country to a more democratic tradition...
With the confusion nearly total, the Communist Pathet Lao seized the opportunity to strike. Last week some 200 of the Red troops thrust into the strategic Mekong River town of Ban Lat Hane only 20 miles north of the royal capital of Luangprabang, routing the government forces defending it. Whether it was the opening of a fresh Pathet Lao offensive or merely a hunger strike, no one could say, but hunger undoubtedly played a part. With the rice crops off 35% because of the floods, the Communists will be forced this fall to probe deeper than usual into government territory...
Whatever the reason for the incursion, it was enough to galvanize the anti-Communists into action. They got their eleven fighter-bombers back from Thailand, though the rebellious pilots, Laos' best, stayed behind in Korat. Stiffened, the air force began airlifting soldiers up to Ban Lat Hane to drive out the invaders. And Prince Souvanna Phouma, who had returned from Europe at the news of the air force revolt, appeared at a news conference immaculately dressed in a double-breasted blue suit and white tie to give Kong Le a long-distance pat on the back, announcing that...
...truth lies somewhere in between. Some 15,000 Arab troops effectively dominate the Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal provinces, restraining rebel terrorism there to what amounts to pinpricks. Control of the southernmost province of Equatoria (lat. 5° N.), however, rides a seesaw. A Mau Mauist organization known as Any a Nya (Scorpion), armed with Communist machine guns smuggled in originally for Congolese Simbas and reinforced by fugitive Simbas, ambushes Arab patrols, murders suspected Arab sympathizers, and spreads havoc through most of the countryside. Last week the rebels announced that they had attacked a river steamer at Tawfigia...
They gave Gronouski a tumultuous, spur-of-the-moment reception. "Our hearts are with you!" shouted a woman. "We wish you fruitful work!" cried another voice from the crowd. As a class of grade-school children swarmed around him, the gathering sang chorus after chorus of Sto Lat (100 Years), a sort of Polish version of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Gronouski responded in halting Polish: "It is hard for me to express how pleased I am to be able to work in this country, which is so dear to me as it is to millions...