Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweeping through a French-run rubber plantation called Binh Ba, 42 miles southeast of Saigon, looking for an ene my force that had mortared the Aussies' main headquarters, a 150-man company of the Royal Australian Regiment's 6th Battalion stumbled onto an estimated two Viet Cong battalions. In the first withering exchange of gunfire, all twelve men of the Australian leading group were killed or wounded. As a torrential rain began to fall, the Communists sought to tighten a noose around the Aussie company, charged in human-wave attacks that were repeatedly beaten back. The fighting...
...first F.I.C.C. rally in an Iron Curtain country, and the Hungarians did their best to please. Inside the main camp was a U.S.-style shopping center where Hungarian girls in native peasant dresses hawked rugs, paintings and even antique silverware. A supermarket sold Red Chinese meat loaf, canned Peking duck, Russian tuna fish, Yugoslav salami, Hungarian goulash, and East German herring. The shelves were loaded with just about every variety of East-bloc wine and liquor. Next to the shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot...
...their final "Declaration of Bogotá," the five countries pinpointed eight main areas for joint industrial development (metallurgy, chemicals and petrochemicals, fertilizers, food, electronics, timber, cellulose and manufactured metal products) and four other areas for nonindustrial development (roads, communications, electric power and banking). As a hint of what will come at the bigger hemisphere-wide meeting, the five also requested more say in the Alliance for Progress, which marked its fifth anniversary last week. The fruits of the Bogotá meeting may not show up for months, until committees work out the details and actual coordination of the broader programs...
...cost of getting to the U.S. is the main obstacle for foreigners, but even when the ocean has been hurdled, money remains a persistent problem-"the largest we have," says USTS Director John W. Black. Yet Sylviane Mathieu, a pretty blonde doctor from Limoges, found that she could get by on $10 a day for food and accommodations after having budgeted $15. Foreigners complain that there are no middle-priced hotels in many U.S. cities: only the expensive and the grubby. By contrast, the motel-"the word that blisters the night sky of the American suburbs in vermilion, green...
...committee was appointed almost a year ago to study the efficacy and safety of the pills. Its report, published this week, makes two main points: 1) the pills are more than 99% effective, far more so than any other contraceptive, if taken regularly on the prescribed schedule; 2) they are safe and have no major deleterious side effects, as far as anyone can tell. In fact, the committee noted tentative evidence that the pills may have welcome benefits in protection against disease, but emphasized that it is still too early to draw firm conclusions...