Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About the time Gait flashed his money at the dancing school, he took a songwriter named Charles Stein on a two-day trip to New Orleans in the Mustang. While passing through Texas, Gait made several long-distance telephone calls from pay booths, and so insistent was he on repeating his name that Stein surmised that "he was establishing a fictitious identity." Once they returned to Los Angeles, Stein saw little of Gait, but is certain that he made at least one more trip to New Orleans...
Eugene McCarthy also complained that Johnson was too slow in agreeing to a site for peace negotiations. In Pittsburgh, he suggested that Secretary of State Dean Rusk be dismissed as a "symbolic" gesture, and in Philadelphia, though he later hedged the idea, he proposed that the U.S. pay ransom to North Korea for the return of the U.S.S. Pueblo's crew...
...President Nguyen Van Thieu, having decided to put the country on a full war footing for the first time, is not only out to raise the number of men in uniform to nearly 1,000,000 but to enforce an across-the-board tightening of the economy to pay for the mobilization. The job will not be easy-and there are many doubts that it can be accomplished by the target date of September or October-but Thieu is determined to push it hard...
...Dragging. Last week the bandits released the son of an automobile dealer whose family had ignited the campaign against them. Once again, they claimed a victory. While the relatives of Nino Petretto, 37, had originally refused to ransom him, in the end they decided that it was wiser to pay the bandits' $8,000 rather than risk his death or mutilation. Many islanders are still anxious to fight the bandits, but they know that they will need outside help to do it. The Italian government has dragged its feet even on appointing a commission that was approved...
...year ago, underwent another one of a somewhat different order last week. Officers had led the previous coups, but this time it was soldiers from the 1,600-man army who mutinied against their superiors and decided to take their turn at governing the country. Dissatisfied over low pay and poor living conditions, troops led by sergeants rose first in the town of Darn and then the capital of Freetown. At least twelve people were killed as a contingent of 300 men seized and threw into prison the entire ruling military junta, headed by Brigadier Andrew Juxon-Smith, 36. Then...