Word: marches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Vietnamese jail. Though he did not know it, Be, 21, had been made a Communist hero in both North and South for having destroyed 69 of the enemy-and himself-by blowing up a mine in their midst after they had surrounded his unit (TIME, March 17). U.S. psychological-warfare men were delighted when they confirmed that the boyish prisoner in the jail at My Tho was the same Be who is held up for emulation to Communist cadres in mass-produced Communist poetry, songs and stories...
...equipment. Their field of operation - a 1,300-sq.-mi. area that straddles important oil lands between Santa Cruz and Camiri-is steep and covered with thick, thorny vegetation and huge plants with leaves so sharp that they can slice through clothes and skin. The guerrillas first surfaced in March, when they ambushed and killed seven men on an army patrol. Since then, they have been striking once every two or three weeks. By last week they had killed 33 soldiers and civilians and lost only six or eight of their...
...government its earlier popularity, and the doughty little ex-general withdrew even further into himself. "A soldier learns patience," he once told a visitor. "I am a patient man." Prohibited from succeeding himself, he willingly left the limelight after Costa e Silva's inauguration as President in March. He spent most of his time with his family, was seen now and then at the opera in Rio, and took occasional trips to visit old friends. It was on such a trip last week that a small Piper Aztec in which he was flying collided with a jet training plane...
...March, the grounded tanker Torrey Canyon spewed some 90,000 tons of crude oil into the coastal waters off southwestern Britain. Though only part of the oil reached the beaches, the accident cost Britain $7,000,000 in cleanup charges, polluted the sea from Cornwall to Brittany and dealt heavy damage to marine life in the area. And there are other vessels afloat that could make an even bigger mess...
...Massachusetts State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights conducted two open meetings in March and April of 1966 to receive information about the civil rights problems of the residents of the Negro ghettos of Roxbury, North Dorchester, and the South End of Boston from the residents themselves...