Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marksman was Mike Caspersen. a 22-year-old from Madison. Wis Caspersen, who made the kill in early September, stalked the bear to within 150 yards before shooting it through the heart. The encounter took place in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, 280 miles north of Vanconver...
...October 15 Moratorium offers Faculty and students a chance to assess the weight of this feeling, to counter it, and to devise strategies that will not provoke it further-provoke it in other words to the point where renewed bombing of the North and unconditional surrender might become politically attractvie. The idea of the Moratorium admirably recognizes that there are no short-cuts to the work of organizing and education in areas beyond our own enclaves. No faculty vote should be taken on the Resolution at least until we can assimilate the experience of the Moratorium...
...serve as North Viet Nam's vice president, Ho Chi Minh in 1960 chose a man who offered three distinct ad vantages. He was unquestionably loyal to Ho's cause, he constituted no threat to Ho's power, and he enabled Ho to avoid choosing a potential heir from among several younger, more ambitious men. For very similar 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...
...President, the National Assem bly did not even permit Thang to choose his second-in-command. Ignoring the constitution, which authorizes a President to name his Vice President, the Assembly made the decision for him, electing Nguyen Luong Bang, about 65, a member of the party Central Committee and North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow from 1952 to 1957. Whatever other assets the new Vice President brings to his job, his election gives North Viet Nam the world's most euphonious governmental team-Thang and Bang...
...Tampering. Though Thang has served as president of the North Viet Nam-U.S.S.R. Friendship Association and has been awarded the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Peace Prize, he is not expected to tamper with Hanoi's delicate relations with the Soviet Union and China. For that matter, he will probably be allowed to tamper with very little. To avert a bruising struggle for the succession, the contenders have quite deliberately removed the presidency from the arena. Until North Viet Nam's power vacuum is filled, "Uncle Ton," as Thang is sometimes called, is expected...