Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu, a conference was called in Geneva in May, 1954. The solution worked out there took no account of the support for the Viet Minh among the peasantry throughout Vietnam: it temporarily divided the country along the 17th parallel and established a Franco-American sphere of influence in the South. This division, supported two distinct objectives: the American intention to keep military and diplomatic pressure on China and the British desire to keep Communist control as far north of Malaya as possible. The U.S., however, refused to sign the agreement, merely...
...enough of this." And so, in response to a murderous series of Communist attacks against U.S. military forces and installations in South Viet Nam, President Lyndon Johnson gave the orders that on three different days last week sent American and Vietnamese warplanes smashing north of the 17th parallel at Red supply dumps, communications systems and guerrilla staging areas...
...Pleiku attack, 49 U.S. A-4 Skyhawks and F-8 Crusaders streaked off the decks of the U.S. aircraft carriers Ranger, Hancock and Coral Sea, all steaming about 100 miles off South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. The jets headed for Donghoi, 160 miles above the 17th parallel, a major staging point for Red guerrillas en route south. The bombers inflicted "considerable" damage, said McNamara, up from his sickbed. One plane was shot down, but its pilot was plucked from...
...because of bad weather, was carried out the next day. Two dozen prop-driven Vietnamese Skyraiders and an unspecified number of U.S. jets from the big Danang airbase 375 miles north of Saigon plastered a major guerrilla staging and communications center at Vinhlinh, five miles north of the 17th parallel. Leading the Vietnamese wave was South Viet Nam's Vice Air Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in a white crash helmet streaked with orange, a violet scarf and a black flying suit. Ky's plane took four hits, and he himself was grazed by shrapnel. Despite heavy ground...
...skiers are no longer able to spend conspicuously, they will probably still continue to spend, because nothing has yet diminished the wild beauty of a ski run, the challenge of modern technique, or the elan of apres ski -- three of the most rewarding aspects of the sport. The parallel christie is at once more attractive, more fun, and less dangerous than the stem turn; it facilitates controlled skiing on steep slopes as well as quick linked turns on narrow trails...