Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...round mortar attack, the Viet Cong destroyed a railroad bridge and a combination railroad-highway bridge on Highway One leading into Quang Tri. On the same day, Communist demolition frogmen floated explosives under the important Nam O bridge, eight miles northwest of Danang on the road to Quang Tri. The charge dropped a 75-ft. span of the bridge into Cu De river. And to complete the day's work, a fourth bridge, 14 miles southwest of Danang, was dynamited...
Organized and Coordinated. To test his theories, the Dutch scientist traveled through the central Africa rain forest until, in northwest Guinea, he found a place where his "dehumanization" hypothesis could be demonstrated. There, in an area with many open plains, the chimpanzees had gradually emerged from the forest, safe from natives who obey the Mohammedan commandment not to eat apes and have no reason to hunt chimps...
...border violations, Sihanouk conveniently ignores the use of Cambodia for transit, resupply and sanctuary by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. It was thus all the more odd when the prince, in a rambling speech last week, complained that Communist bands were shooting up villages in Battambang Province in northwest Cambodia, far from the Viet Nam border...
Civil Aeronautics Board was in its second month of studying requests by 18 U.S. airlines to fly the Far East route, currently dominated by Pan Am and Northwest Orient Airlines. At stake for Chow and the 18: an estimated billion dollars of total annual air fares...
...from Earlham College who marched on London's Trafalgar Square with Folk Singer Joan Baez in a 1965 antiwar demonstration. Last week Worrall, in striped shirt and sweat-stained Levi's, was humming a different tune as he sweated in the dust of Phu Cuong, twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half" (2½-ton army truck) and scavenging useful debris like 105-mm. ammo boxes, which...