Word: lined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partition line along the 17th parallel was set up merely to facilitate the withdrawal of the French colonial forces rather than to create the so-called Republic of Viet Nam "with heavy American assistance." Of course, the admission that Viet Nam is one country would have made it difficult for a time to justify American aggression against the Vietnamese people...
Violence is no stranger to Cairo (rhymes with Pharaoh), Ill., a decaying former riverboat port at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Below the Mason-Dixon Line and closer to Little Rock than Chicago in attitude as well as mileage, the capital of the state's "Little Egypt" section is a thoroughly Southern town. Its 4,000 white citizens are determined to maintain the local system of apartheid over the town's 4,000 blacks that has persisted since before the Civil...
...case, the line-up on the dais in Peking's Tienanmen Square next week should be revealing. At that time, the Chinese government will celebrate its 20th anniversary. If Mao, the author of China's revolution, is well, he will be on the rostrum. If he does not show, there will be a strong reason to believe that People's China will begin its third decade with new leadership...
...Marine Division will have been withdrawn, leaving the gap to be filled by ARVN's 1st Division. The U.S. Commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, calls the 1st the equal of any American division in the country. In line with its slogan, "More sweat in training, less blood in combat," it gives each trooper an extra five weeks of special training, and its combat record is excellent. Though it is twice the size of most other ARVN divisions, with its six regiments, the 1st may well have to be spread too thin across the 37 miles of vulnerable...
...sort of passively pushed around and ended up on line. Then two cops came in and I thought to myself the jig's up, before I get my doughnut they'll realize where I'm from and put me in a straight jacket and with a blaze of lights and sirens whisk me back to O-2. But miraculously they didn't even speak to me, though I was sure that they and everyone else in the place was staring at me when I wasn't looking: I felt like a fugitive, so tremendously different and apart from everyone else...