Word: latelies
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...films that depicted the rampaging mobs and wanton destruction in Paris' Left Bank riots. Much of what the Gaullists said and showed was true enough. France had indeed been on the verge of a breakdown, and if De Gaulle had stepped aside instead of asserting his authority in late May, the country might well have slipped over the brink into civil war. The warnings about more impending disorders struck a responsive chord in the French character...
...they now had eight. To counter that increased threat, U.S. commanders reasoned, the 271,000 allied forces in the area would have to be highly mobile. A fixed and exposed base like Khe Sanh would no longer make sense. That argument was sensible enough, but it came a little late. Many critics felt from the beginning that mobile tactics were called for in the Khe Sanh area, and that it was a costly mistake to have so many U.S. troops pinned down in a stationary position-even though the siege also pinned down many enemy troops and cost the North...
...siege, the bombers had dropped more than 100,000 tons of explosives, about one-sixth the total used during all of the Korean War. The raids probably helped to prevent the big ground assault that everyone expected. The attack never came, and finally, in late March, the pressure eased. The bothersome question remained of whether Khe Sanh had been a massive diversion to pin down U.S. troops and make it easier for General Giap to attack Vietnamese cities at Tet, or whether-as General Westmoreland insisted -Tet was the diversion and Khe Sanh the main target...
Decline & Rescue. One of America's first planned cities, Williamsburg was laid out in 1699 by Governor Francis Nicholson as a replacement for the outgrown capital of Jamestown. It thrived until late in the Revolutionary War, when the rebel government, fearful of a British attack from the sea, moved the capital inland to Richmond. With only the College of William and Mary and a state insane asylum left to support the town, Williamsburg slowly declined into a sleepy bastion of seedy gentility...
Egypt meanwhile, hopes to start work on a 42-in. line of its own late next year with completion scheduled for the end of 1970-a full year after Israel's line is due to go into operation. Under plans drawn up by a British engineering firm, the $150 million line would carry 50 million tons per year from the Gulf of Suez to one of three terminals-Alexandria, Damietta and Port Said. Despite the greater distance involved, the Egyptians will most likely decide on the 190-mile Alexandria route on the theory that it would be more secure...