Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wondering fleetingly why his friend Jimmy Carter had not invited him. In the middle of the program, the invitation arrived by mail, giving Rusk one more chuckle about Government efficiency. Although he is a veteran of many dramatic ceremonies, Rusk was caught up in the simple program on the North Lawn. Some of his old juices began to flow. He hoped that the Administration was moving strongly behind the scenes to help along the peace process. "This is the most significant event for that part of the world in 30 years," he said later. "It's a heck...
...considerably more serious development, in Washington's view, was Viet Nam's continuing troop buildup in its now devastated northern regions, as if in preparation for further fighting. Hanoi has already moved several of its better divisions out of Cambodia to the north. According to Agence France-Presse Correspondent Jean Thoraval, who recently visited Viet Nam's northern frontier, thousands of militiamen and soldiers have taken up positions in the lush valleys and mountains adjoining the 735-mile-long border with China. Thoraval said Vietnamese officials openly predict a resumption of fighting within six months...
...Collection Center for Captured Vietnamese," as the Chinese quaintly called the first camp, was located at Baise in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, some 60 miles north of the Vietnamese border. At first sight, reported one of the English-language journalists present, Nigel Wade of the London Daily Telegraph, it resembled nothing so much as a busy secondary school during recess. Prisoners in Chinese-supplied blue suits and caps were playing soccer, badminton and tug-of-war. The food seemed plentiful and nutritious. There was no barbed wire or watchtower, and only one visible armed sentry, at the main gate...
Terrified of cities, Ayckbourn lives in Scarborough, a resort on the North Sea, 230 miles north of London, where he and Heather have a converted vicarage. He is director of a theater-in-the-round with some 300 seats. He puts on new works and old, but every year, shortly after Christmas, he is certain of one production, a new play by Alan Ayckbourn. Some time in November he sharpens his pencils, gets out his pad of paper from Woolworth's and shuts himself up. Heather can tell when the time is approaching because "he gets slightly weirder...
...triumph in the nightcap was without question the Crimson's finest all-around diamond effort since the squad returned North last Sunday. Harvard played errorless baseball for the first time in four games and got a tremendous defensive effort from the infield of Rick Pearce, Burke St. John, Bobby Kelley, and Mark Bingham...