Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thailand's infant but active guerrilla war falls into the familiar pattern of Communist subversion in Southeast Asia, and has disturbing similarities to the beginning of the war in Viet Nam. Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi, in fact, pointedly predicted last year that the struggle in Thailand would soon start. For their launching spot, the Communists picked a remote region of Thailand that is not only backward economically (annual income is well below the $100 national average) but harbors people who are ethnically closer to the Laotians than to the Thais. Many village youths, impatient with...
...that we've got some atomic energy." He pledged repeatedly to bring forth a long line of witnesses who would reveal further political dealings. Crane told Mayor Hayes: "You and your colleagues are going to be pulverized at the hearing. It's all going to come out. . . the whole pattern of coalition, this conspiracy is going to be revealed by competent witnesses...
...unscrewing of fuses, disguises of voice. But Lee Remick is a sightless Penelope with uncanny perception who carefully unravels in Act II everything that the crooks have carelessly knitted in Act I; it takes a pretty dedicated mystery fan to follow every purl three, drop one, of this crazy pattern. In Act III the mayhem picks up, and a refrigerator becomes the most electrifying actor in the house...
Jack Bass, governmental affairs reporter for the Columbia, S.C., State and a Nieman Fellow this year, illustrates the pattern. Bass, 31, was born in Columbia and has spent most of his life in South Carolina. He arrived at Harvard last fall with his wife and three children, two of them schoolage, and ended up settling in Belmont...
...resume bombing. How heavily should U.S. war planes bomb the North? At the same level as before? More intensively? Initially, at least, the Administration plans to follow roughly the same bombing tactics as before. Nonetheless, commanders in the field are virtually unanimous in urging a more intensified, selective pattern. None suggest bombing the Hanoi-Haiphong population centers. But they point out that the U.S. has a scant 300 planes to plaster a 7,310-sq.-mi. area, whereas the Air Force in World War II used 1,700 planes to bomb a 2,900-sq.-mi. area of north...