Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elson. TIME correspondents cabled details of the developments from Moscow, Washington and Havana, where Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had been covering the Conference of Nonaligned Countries. Talbott found no shortage of soldierly looking Soviets in the Cuban capital. "Every morning I went jogging and passed groups of young Russian men," he says. "When I greeted them in Russian, they looked surprised, but usually returned a friendly word or two." Also reporting for the story was Economics Correspondent George Taber, who had been in Cuba only a month earlier for a firsthand look at the country's economy...
...dull metallic click startled White House Guard Donald Birdzell as he stood watch at Blair House, where President Harry Truman was staying while the Executive Mansion was being remodeled. Birdzell turned to face a German P-38 automatic pistol held by Oscar Collazo, a Puerto Rican Nationalist. Both men began shooting. Birdzell was hit in both legs. Collazo sprawled on the sidewalk, wounded. Almost simultaneously another Nationalist, Griselio Torresola, attacked a nearby guard post with a Luger, killing a White House guard, Leslie Coffelt, and injuring Plainclothesman Joseph H. Downs. Before he died, Coffelt killed Torresola. From an upstairs window...
...reaffirmed the underlying strength of the Egyptian-Israeli treaty. Despite strong differences in attitude and priorities, Sadat and Begin gave every indication that their relationship is now rooted in friendship and respect. In fact, some diplomats are convinced that after months of occasional disappointments and persistent distrust, the two men have grown genuinely fond of each other...
They that go down to the sea in ships .. . these men see the works of the Lord and His wonders in the deep . .. and so he bringeth them unto their desired haven...
These two angry men are among the 221,000 refugees from Viet Nam who have been resettled on state farms; 78,000 in Guangxi province, 27,000 in Yunnan and others scattered in Guangdong and Fujian provinces. Thirty thousand more are in refugee camps near the Viet Nam border waiting for places in permanent settlement areas...