Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have been forced to govern. The nations that they took over were artificial, their boundaries carved out arbitrarily in the days when the European powers were grabbing colonies as fast as they could, paying no attention to the hundreds of tribal lines that make up the true political map of Africa...
...coast, patrol boats of the Navy's Operation Market Time have cut down on Communist gunrunning. As elsewhere, it will be difficult to separate friend from foe-demonstrated last week when U.S. Air Force jets strafed and bombed a Delta hamlet near the village of Truong Trung (see map), killing 24 inhabitants and wounding 82, among them women and children...
...John Pakington where the Virgin Islands were. He is supposed to have replied imperiously: "As far as possible, my dear lady, from the Isle of Man." A President of the Orange Free State in South Africa reported his experience in 1876 with another Colonial Secretary who "unfolded a pocket map and begged that I would point out to him where the Orange Free State...
Azikiwe was overthrown as President in last January's military coup, but Nigerians last week had ample cause to recall his warning. Another coup had just rocked the nation, and as the details began to emerge, they confirmed the fears that Nigeria, traditionally torn by regional rivalries (see map), had gone through another violent tribal uprising. As a nation, in fact, Nigeria seemed perilously near disintegration...
From 100 canny Australian jungle warriors seeded as advisers through the northernmost I Corps, through the tough South Korean infantrymen and marines nearly 25,000 strong on the central coast, down to the 4,550 Australian "diggers" and New Zealand artillerymen near Saigon (see map), the other fighting allies are present and accounted for. If they are sometimes overlooked in the flow of dispatches, they are hardly ever by the Viet Cong. For each contingent has brought its own unique style and skills to the Viet Nam conflict...