Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over rutted jungle roads and through remote mountain villages, General Maxwell D. Taylor Jeeped and walked last week on a first-hand inspection tour of South Viet Nam's hard, ugly war against the Communist Viet Cong. Taylor, who takes over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff next month, last visited Viet Nam a year ago; from that trip came the stepped-up program of U.S. military and economic aid to the embattled nation. Last week, in talks with President Ngo Binh Diem and General Paul Harkins, boss of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, hardbitten Maxwell Taylor...
...closing its borders to Andorrans and their produce unless they can present the proper export permits - which the Spanish veguer refuses to sign. Blocked off from their main source of food, Andorrans shiver at the thought of the approaching winter, when for five months snow will make the mountain passes into France all but impenetrable. "Monsieur," mutters the French veguer, "this could be another Berlin...
...landing stairs. From the plane stepped the towering figure of Charles de Gaulle, who, as the first French chief of state to visit Germany officially since 1870, had come on a historic mission: to cement a lasting bond of friendship and unity between two ancient foes. "The mountain," said one spectator, "has come to Mohammed...
...Also in dire need of repair: the area's intricate, ingenious system of underground conduits -called Qanats-which have been used for hundreds of years to distribute water from mountain springs to the arid plateaus...
...bedrooms on the upper levels (reached by gentle ramps instead of stairs), a dining room, a petit salon, an office and a kitchen in addition to the main reception room on the main floor, is really an island in the midst of a gushing stream. Icy water from melted mountain snow burbles beside the driveway, continues through the house in blue and gold glazed tile channels, tumbling over alabaster barriers and out into the garden. The chilled water is also used to air-condition the house in summer, must be heated before reaching the swimming pool, where on Wednesdays...