Word: nones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons, Ton Due Thang, at 81 the oldest living member of Hanoi's Lao Dong (Worker's Party), last week was elevated from the vice-presidency to the post left vacant by Ho's death in September. Thang's accession to the presidency confirmed that none of the four real rivals for Ho's mantle - Premier Pham Van Dong, Party Boss Le Duan, National Assembly Chairman Truong Chinh and Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap - are yet strong enough to claim it for themselves...
Asahi Shimbun Correspondent lyeshige Akioka visited Tung Chi University in Shanghai this month, he discovered that there would be graduating classes this year and next-but none after that. No one seemed to know when enrollment would resume. Factional clashes became brutal; at one point in the struggle, corpses floated down the Pearl River from Canton and washed ashore in Hong Kong. Mao finally backed down and called in the army to restore control...
Direct Talks. In Washington, Mrs. Meir repeated the negotiation terms on which the Israelis insist: either direct talks with the Arabs or none at all. She is especially adamant in her refusal to recognize any effort by the Soviet Union to arrange peace terms. This puts her at odds with the Nixon Administration, which believes that the Russians-as equippers of the Arabs -must play a part in peace as in war. Thus, when Secretary of State William Rogers met on two occasions last week with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the Middle East was high on their agenda. Moscow...
...secret of the system is timing. To form the electronic bubbles, each participating plane must send brief radio pulses-none longer than a tiny fraction of a second-in an assigned order of rotation at exact three-second intervals. The system demands such accuracy that all the planes must carry atomic clocks, which are precisely synchronized to a master timepiece on the ground or aboard one of the planes. Theoretically, CAS is so fast and efficient that it can safely handle as many as 2,000 planes over an area of more than 61,000sq...
...Captain Burke of the Cambridge police department said he did not think further warrants would be issued. None of the three people have been arrested...