Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green Beret commander in Viet Nam, Colonel Robert Rheault,* are under arrest in Long Binh. A civilian lawyer for one of the Green Berets has hinted that Chuyen worked for the CIA and that it ordered his execution by the Green Berets when he was discovered to be a North Vietnamese agent as well...
...President Nixon announced last June that he planned to begin bringing U.S. troops home from Viet Nam, Washington has waited anxiously for some sign of a reciprocal move by Hanoi. In the U.S., Nixon's Viet Nam position rests heavily on some form of favorable response from the North. So far, the North Vietnamese have not obliged. Last week, in the wake of a presidential decision to delay further withdrawals until Hanoi's position becomes clearer, a sharp debate broke out at the highest levels of the Nixon Administration over the enemy's intentions and the appropriate...
...exchange was touched off by, of all people, Dean Rusk. Breaking a seven-month silence on the subject of Viet Nam, the former Secretary of State told a University of Wisconsin audience that there had recently been an "almost total lack" of North Vietnamese infiltration into the South. Since such a development could be an important signal of Hanoi's willingness to reduce the level of combat, newsmen the next morning eagerly clustered around the State Department's spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey...
Married. Nora Avis Hope, 23, comedian Bob's raven-haired daughter and youngest of his four adopted children; and Samuel Boyd McCullagh Jr., 23, assistant director of admissions at the University of San Francisco; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in North Hollywood...
Recently, a new generation of insurance-company leaders has grown impatient with such lethargic ways. The younger men are pushing the industry into more adventurous investments and diversification programs. Within the past year, INA Corp., the holding company for Insurance Co. of North America, has acquired World Airways, a charter carrier, and a manufacturer of fire-preventing sprinkler systems. Travellers Corp., owner of Hartford's Travellers Life Insurance Co., is dickering to buy Randolph Computer Corp., a major computer-leasing firm. This month, CNA Financial Corp., the Chicago-based owner of a group of life-and casualty-insurance firms...