Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong had grown to a lethally effective terrorist army of 165,000 whose supplies, orders and reinforcements flowed freely from the North. Viet Minh regulars were infiltrating at the rate of a regiment every two months. From the tip of Ca Mau Peninsula to the 17th parallel, huge swaths of the South lay under Communist sway, and with good reason: in that year, the Viet Cong had kidnaped or assassinated 11,000 civilians, mostly rural administrators, teachers and technicians...
...trucks were not stopping. The first truck hit the crowd headon. It surged a full 40 yds., rising like a motorboat over successive waves of humanity until the friction of broken bodies and torn limbs slowed and stopped it. The second truck, veering to one side and running a parallel course, also rammed into a mass of people. The tow cable between the trucks acted as a scythe, severing bodies through the middle. More than 100 dancers and onlookers died immediately, including James Driscoll, 20, a Peace Corps volunteer from Buffalo, N.Y., who had already served 16 months in Togo...
What the Inner Belt threatens to do is uproot nearly five per cent of the City's population and pass within two blocks of Central Square. The Inner Belt itself will have eight lanes and the service roads that must run parallel to it will add another four or six. Clearly, the prospect isn't either pretty or pleasing, and the City Council has consistently informed the Commonwealth of its opposition to "any and all Belt routes" through Cambridge...
Basically, all the alternatives to the Brookline-Elm Street route run over or parallel to a set of abandoned railroad tracks in East Cambridge. The tracks themselves are owned by M.I.T., and if the Belt went along any of the proposed paths in this area, at least several M.I.T. buildings would get wiped...
...Wilson had set out to do was to put just enough pressure on Rhodesia to topple the Smith regime but not enough to plunge the land into anarchy. It would not be an easy task. There was, for one thing, considerable doubt that Wilson's sanctions-or the parallel trade ban imposed by the U.S.-were strong enough to make Rhodesia feel more than a mild pinch, especially since prosperous South Africa would help Rhodesia make up any trade losses. But there was good reason for Wilson's stand. The blood ties between Britain and the white settlers...