Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweaty Hands & a Prize. Comfortably settled in an integrated Northeast Washington neighborhood, the Smiths enrolled their only child in the progressive Georgetown Day School, established in 1945 with the aim of forestalling any sense of racial separateness in children's minds. Guy was in a minority, but not by all that much: 30 of Georgetown Day's 100 pupils were Negroes...
Flying through cloud-laden skies that signaled the approaching monsoons, Navy attack planes from the carriers Oriskany and Coral Sea rained bombs and missiles for the first time on the port of Cam Pha, which is only 46 miles northeast of Haiphong and serves as its auxiliary port. Under congressional pressure to hit North Viet Nam harder, President Johnson gave the go-ahead to bomb Cam Pha when no ships were at the piers, thus seeking to avoid hitting any Russian vessels. After Navy scouts found the right moment, the raiders demolished Cam Pha's wharves, badly damaged...
...July, Owen returned to Viet Nam. As an adviser to that nation's Revolutionary Development Program, he was assigned to work with villagers in Viet Cong-infested Quang Ngai province, 300 miles northeast of Saigon. Fortnight ago, Owen and three other Americans volunteered to drive from Quang Ngai City four miles to a coastal hamlet to warn U.S. and Vietnamese co-workers that Viet Cong had attacked the city and were believed still to be lurking in the area. On the way back, the Jeep was ambushed. Taking cover in a cornfield, Owen and his companions were bombarded...
...turned up plans for a Red Guard-style youth movement. "It's not only that we've picked up a lot of the top brains," said Police General Chamras Mandukananda. "We've got people who were responsible for supplying funds, coordinating couriers and keeping the whole Northeast movement going. They're exceptionally difficult to replace...
...then a week later claiming that the list has fallen into government hands. The whole village, the Reds say, will go to prison unless it accepts Communist "protection." Sometimes, the guerrillas even try to claim credit for the new schools and roads that the government is building in the Northeast. "You would never get them without us," one terrorist told a crowd. "They show the government is afraid...