Word: mid-march
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...Czechoslovakia to counter the NATO threat. A Soviet officer quoted in the newspaper explained that "we must be prepared to give a due rebuff to the aggressor." But if Moscow was stiff as ever about intermediate-range missiles, Gro myko did suggest that the Soviets would return, probably in mid-March, to the Vienna negotiations on the reduction of conventional forces in Europe, which the Soviets "suspended" just before Christmas...
...policy" and outline his own supposedly more cohesive alternatives in a hard-hitting speech to the National Press Club in Washington, B.C. Then, in a DC-9 loaded with reporters, he would aggressively tour the South, where he hopes to wrap up his party's presidential nomination by mid-March. But when he stepped to the microphone in Washington, Mondale joined a media blitz for another candidate. "All of us are proud of the Rev. Jackson's success," Mondale began. "He deserves our thanks on this happy day for Lieut. Goodman, his family and our country...
...passed without notice when it occurred in mid-March 1968, at a time when the war news was still dominated by the siege of Khe Sanh. Yet the brief action at My Lai, a hamlet in Viet Cong-infested territory 335 miles northeast of Saigon, may yet have an impact on the war. According to accounts that suddenly appeared on TV and in the world press last week, a company of 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning and destroyed its houses, its livestock and all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal...
...government. The French were deeply irritated by a strict $285-a-year ceiling on the amount of money they could spend on vacations abroad. The new tax burdens were considered "too heavy" for workers. Then came the unexpectedly sharp rise of the dollar against the franc (7% since mid-March), which bowled over the goals that Delors had set for his plan. Even the official National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies concluded that inflation could not be reduced to 8% by the end of the year and that the trade deficit would be closer to $8.6 billion than...
...coalition, which has met three times since its inception in mid-March, has sent a letter to the Corporation calling for partial University divestiture from companies operating in South Africa. Members plan to meet with Bok next month to discuss school-wide financial aid policies and the role of student representation on student-faculty committees...