Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guam, streaked 5,000 miles to rain 400 tons of high explosives upon a tiny strip of Viet Cong-held jungle. That sortie may have moot consequences (see THE WORLD), but day after day, other U.S. aircraft continued to plaster Communist targets both north and south of the 17th Parallel...
...Lumet's parallel between Harlem and the concentration camp creates the impact of the film. Nazemann is constantly seen behind the pawnbroker's cage dealing with his customers as through the prison fence. The cage also symbolizes his isolation, emphasized by Lumet's close-up shots of Nazemann locking himself in and out. Inside the cage he is the Nazi officer responding to human misery with utter callousness, the Jew playing persecutor. But when a destitute woman enters to sell her wedding ring, he cannot avoid his own memories, shown as flashbacks, of German soldiers tearing gold rings from...
...power could be brought to bear. When the Viet Cong probed the new U.S. airbase and port facility at Chulai, they were beaten back by U.S. marines and the 8-in. guns of the U.S.S. Canberra, a Seventh Fleet cruiser. Near Danang, the critical base below the 17th parallel where most of the U.S. air strikes at North Viet Nam originate, a sharp assault by the Reds was blunted by Marine Corps fire...
Running Out of Bridges. In the days after the lull lapsed, U.S. planes, almost without letup, prowled north of the 17th parallel. Carrier-based Skyraiders and Skyhawks plastered petroleum-storage facilities at Phuqui, 125 miles south of Hanoi, sending braided columns of orange flame and black smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air. Navy jets took potluck, strafing targets along highways, rail lines and riverbeds from the 17th parallel to a point only 80 miles from Hanoi. Air Force Thunderchiefs made the deepest penetration yet by U.S. warplanes, streaking up to the Red River Delta town of Ninhbinh...
...escalation in Viet Nam is pushing Red China and Russia together. Despite some parallel warlike noises from Moscow and Peking, there is little to support this belief. China seeks to control the Communist movement throughout the world, hopes to win that control by showing that "wars of liberation" pay off. Russia, on the other hand, is unwilling to give up the hard-won détente with the West, which permits Moscow greater concentration on internal development, in favor of the Chinese hard line. Should Mao prove his point by winning in South Viet Nam, Russia might well be forced...