Word: mandarines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ordinarily, everyone has to wait until the day after the election to hold a copy of his dream aloft. But not Conservative Mandarin William F. Buckley Jr.; he put his dreams on a pre-election cover of his weekly National Review. A bogus New York Times front page reported the "glad tidings [of] a conservative tidal wave...
...their little red books and began studying the gospel according to Mao. The American teen-agers were fascinated. Two of them approached the knot of Chinese and offered to buy the Mao badges. The Chinese ignored them. The Americans persisted. Then one Chinese let loose with a torrent of Mandarin that sounded abusive...
...some inexplicable reason, the Somali students took the side of the Americans and crowded menacingly toward the Chinese, who started shouting in Mandarin for help. Cairo airport police stood aside, fearful of offending anyone. Finally, a Russian flight engineer from the Moscow-bound Aeroflot plane shouldered his way between the Chinese and Somalis...
...Mandarin Generals. In South Viet Nam itself, many units are still apt to strike live-and-let-live bargains with the Communists in their areas. But ARVN is much better led than it was before Thieu began replacing the old mandarin generals with battle-seasoned officers and the products of improved training academies. One grim sign of a new aggressiveness on the platoon and company level is the soaring casualty rate among lieutenants and captains...
...revels in his daredevil image, but he is also an obviously bright officer whose unusual nerve has produced some extraordinary exploits both on and off the field. The grandson of a Vietnamese mandarin and son of a wealthy landowner, Tri joined the French army in 1947 and received part of his cadet training in Hanoi. Since he won his first command as a young airborne officer, he has survived three assassination attempts, resulting in his conviction that he is a baraka-a French barracks term for one who enjoys immunity from death on the battlefield...