Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...urge to merge. Their alliance, which a Jordanian diplomat described as a "semi-union," was formed last week after three days of talks between crusty old King Saud, 61, and Jordan's gritty young King Hussein, 26, whose Hashemite grandfather King Abdullah was chased out of the Arabian peninsula in 1919 by Saud's father...
...What we're trying to do is give the district chiefs in Camau Peninsula a chance to breathe," said the South Vietnamese colonel. "Until now, they've been asphyxiated." With these words, seven South Vietnamese army and marine battalions, aided by U.S. helicopters and military advisers, began artificial respiration on South Viet Nam's Red-infested southern tip. Last week, government officials and U.S. military leaders in Saigon exulted that the campaign was the most successful operation yet carried out against the Communist Viet Cong...
Instead of merely sweeping the countryside in an effort to round up the elusive Red guerrillas in a dragnet, government forces leapfrogged around the peninsula, moving past burning villages in the chase, destroying known Viet Cong supply dumps and training centers. By concentrating on such specific targets and keeping up a triphammer succession of attacks, the government hoped to force the Communist forces onto the defensive. To harass the Reds still further, several companies of Rangers, dressed in black peasant garb, infiltrated the Red areas and kept jabbing them off balance...
...late spring and summer. Those who can afford the best have summer houses along the northern Emerald Bay area of Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada line; the less affluent have cottages around the perimeter of the lake. Other rich Californians have summer houses on the magnificent Del Monte peninsula near Carmel and Monterey. More and more ordinary families, however, are moving into the rugged country north of San Francisco...
Fish Creek, Wis., Peninsula Playhouse: A reminder of the days when bedroom farce was in flower, Hotel Paradiso...