Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IRAN. When Stalin refused to withdraw Soviet troops from the country's northern tier after World War II, U.S. and British pressure, backed by the West's monopoly on nuclear arms, forced their unconditional evacuation...
When they made their retreat, however, the Viet Cong ran into an exploring American patrol and killed nine of its ten members. In two other clashes in the northern coastal provinces of the country, U.S. troops killed 130 of the Viet Cong's black pajama-clad regular soldiers, lost only six of their own men. During Operation Beacon Torch in Quang Nam province, U.S. Marines killed 57 North Vietnamese. During the battle, ten leathernecks also fell...
...past few months they have been denounced by ex-President Eisenhower, condemned by Designer Coco Chanel, blasted by King Hassan II of Morocco, banned in Tunisia, prohibited in Rumania, and ridiculed at Ascot. Nowhere, however, has the reaction been as cutting as in the populous copper-belt towns of northern Zambia. There, thigh-high skirts have become the objects of a fanatic "culture campaign" directed by local members of President Kenneth Kaunda's United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P...
...Based on two years' study by a citizens advisory council, the Northern San Joaquin Valley Supplementary Education Center developed a proposal for preparing programmed learning materials for sixth, eighth-and tenth-grade students. Each student will get individual instruction through a self-teaching device including a recorded presentation, slides or a film strip and programmed text...
...spectacular exhibition of night bombing that left the skies red with flames. Two armored columns snaked out and around the Old City of Jerusalem. Within its ancient walls are nestled the holy sites of three world religions, and Israeli gunners and bombers had carefully spared it. The northern column fought its way to the commanding height of Mount Scopus. The southern column swept south, moving inexorably from hill to hill despite stubborn Jordanian Arab League resistance, until the Old City was encircled...