Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle in the large numbers and on the scale of their North Vietnamese allies operating farther north. The other was that the Allied forces that inflicted the damage on the Delta Viet Cong were largely South Vietnamese, who have sometimes been accused of having an "accommodation" with the local Viet Cong to avoid bloodletting...
...second battle was entirely a Vietnamese victory. Two companies of a Ranger battalion were moving along a canal line 22 miles southwest of the Delta's largest city, Can Tho, when they ran into two Viet Cong battalions: the local force U Minh 10 and the 303rd main force unit. In a fierce fight that raged through most of one day, the South Vietnamese killed 265 of the V.C., and supporting helicopters and fighter-bombers accounted for another 100 dead. The total of 365 enemy dead was the largest ever inflicted in a Delta battle, with more probably...
...government and gathered younger and more liberal men around him. Last week, at a national party conference in Bucharest, he finally threw off the mantle of Rumania's "collective leadership" and took over the presidency himself. He also did away with "parallel" party and government jobs at the local level, reshuffled the Rumanian hierarchy and put some of the Old Guard out to pasture. Among the losers was Ceausescu's only challenger for power in the past, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was dropped as a Party Secretary and became one of several deputy premiers...
...stock farm in the rolling country of Shropshire in western England, Farmer Richard Ellis noticed one day that two of his pigs were limping. He called in the local veterinarian, and received a dreaded diagnosis. His pigs had somehow become infected with one of the most contagious and toll-taking of all animal maladies: foot-and-mouth disease. That was in October, and the authorities immediately slaughtered all of Ellis' livestock, buried them and took other preventive measures to confine the disease to one area. But the malady, which spreads with the silence and virulence of the bubonic plague...
...town of Volta Redonda, after four university students had borrowed Bishop Waldir Calheiros' station wagon to distribute antigovernment pamphlets. A few hours later, eight tommy-gun-toting soldiers broke into Dom Waldir's home, searched his belongings and threatened to arrest him as a subversive. When a local radio station canceled a Catholic program and read an army-composed editorial against the bishop instead, Dom Waldir drew up and had printed a new list of Brazil's "seven capital sins," which included low salaries, unemployment, hunger, social castes and disease. The army confiscated all copies and arrested...