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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Huong did, however, bring in new men for the main posts. Senator Tran Chanh Tranh, a diplomat and political independent who is not close to either Thieu or Ky, became Foreign Minister. Four-star General Tran Thien Khiem, an ally of President Thieu and presently Ambassador to Taiwan, was named Interior Minister. Dr. Phan Quang Dan, a vice-presidential candidate who ran against the Thieu-Ky military ticket in the September elections, got the ministry dealing with defectors. Huong kept for himself the Rural Development Ministry, responsible for pacification. "The life and death of this country depend on this government...
...Setting up headquarters with his 105-mm.-howitzer battery in a suburban Anglican churchyard, Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, head of Nigeria's 3rd Marine Commando Division ("The Scorpions"), took full charge of the attack, code-naming his immediate area "Hell Sector," the Port Harcourt airport "Iron Sector" and the main area of town "Hate Sector." As federal howitzer, mortar and artillery shells began pounding the fringes of the city at three-minute intervals, young Ibo tribesmen dressed in clean white shirts and ties slapped "Anti-Panic Squad" signs on their cars and drove through the streets shouting for calm. Unpersuaded...
Meeting force with force, Duvalier rushed 200 troops into the north, blocked the main road to Cap Haitien, surrounded the airport and personally directed every operation and news release from his corner office in the palace. "We must bomb the enemy systematically," he instructed his commander by phone. Later, Duvalier rang up Washington, where the Haitian ambassador, Arthur Bonhomme, was holding a press conference, and instructed the diplomat to inform the assembled reporters that Papa's troops were "mopping up right...
Defiance Duplication. Later in the week, though, the university announced the suspension of four S.D.S. leaders, including its chairman, Mark Rudd. In protest, Rudd and a band of his faithful followers then seized Hamilton Hall, the main classroom building of Columbia's undergraduate college. The demonstrators threw up barricades, apparently trying to duplicate last month's five-day defiance of the administration...
...Depo-Provera may be the answer. It has been used for treatment of uterine disorders, but one of its side effects proved to be infertility lasting a year or more. This is understandable, since the drug's basic ingredient is a synthetic female hormone that is also the main component of Upjohn's birth control pills. Last week the company announced that it will begin marketing Depo-Provera for long-term birth control injections by doctors as soon as it wins the approval of the Food and Drug Administration...