Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently when a Viet Cong named Nguyen Van Be turned up in a 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...
Several people who recognized Be on his return visit vanished after an investigating team headed by a North Vietnamese officer entered the village. The hamlet chief was blown to bits when he stepped on a mine outside his office. Another mine, detonated from ambush, killed eleven persons riding in a Lambretta minibus. Among the passengers: another cousin...
...listen upstairs, giving each parent points on a chart. The marriage game continues in the presence of the couple's lawyers. Debbie fights dirty, and in no time at all, Dick is taken to the cleaners. She gets custody of the house, the children, the car. "The uranium mine to her," he sighs, "and the shaft...
...husband had just come home from the seas. He looked in the closet. "What are those military uniforms doing there?" he asked. "They're mine," said Manuela Sáenz de Thorne. "I'm a colonel in the Liberation Army...
...bindle stiffs on the West Coast trudging from mine to logging camp, the Wobblies were a sacred symbol. For immigrants just off the boat and tending looms in New England textile mills...