Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Ellsberg '52 told the Nieman Fellows Monday that anti-war protests in 1969, especially the September and October anti-war moratoriums that year, apparently "derailed a plan to mine Haiphong in the fall of '69, and postponed it for what turned out to be two and a half years...
Ellsberg told the Niemans he learned of a 1969 plan to mine Haiphong from an article in the July 1974 issue of the Washington Monthly, written by Roger Morris, a former National Security Council aide...
Hunt gets into trouble when he comes out of the mine and into the day light. Between the beginning and end of Gold there is a great deal of foolish ness about Sir John's plotting, Roger Moore's carrying on with the wife of his immediate and sinister superior (Bradford Dillman) and the wife's (Susannah York) becoming smitten with Moore...
Also present is Miss York's grandfather, played by Ray Milland, who chomps on stogies and has a good time acting gruff as the boss of the imperiled gold mine...
...while it seemed as if Elizabeth Taylor were getting the diamond mine and Richard Burton the shaft. Now, apparently, the durable actor has rebounded from his recent divorce by acquiring a new Elizabeth-and royalty at that. Burton's latest love is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, 38, a twice-married mother of three whose second husband is British Banker-Politician Neil Balfour. The romance began just last month while Burton was in London filming a biography of Sir Winston Churchill. "We are going to be married-that's definite," says Burton. "She has been a friend to Elizabeth...