Word: pileser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The piles of garbage that accumulated during the first two weeks after Tet have mercifully been cleared away, even so, Saigon remains the dirtiest city in Asia, and the marks of war further blotch the city's face. In the Chinese quarter of Cholon, the heaviest damaged area, only...
Pulling in to defend the cities, the allies have been forced to cede large areas of the countryside to the Communists. Except for the largest population centers, for example, the rich Delta is now almost entirely in Viet Cong hands. There is not a Delta road safe to drive on...
THE Citadel of Hue resembled nothing so much as the ruins of Monte Cassino after allied bombs had reduced it to rubble. An avalanche of bricks littered the streets and open spaces, and loose piles of masonry provided cover for both sides in the battle for the fortress. With every...
NEW YORK Aftermath of the Garbage Battle As New York City sanitationmen attacked an Andean accumulation of garbage, a legion of critics-with considerably more enthusiasm-piled into Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the man who had ended the union's illegal nine-day strike. Both efforts succeeded. The pestilential piles...
For New York City's 8,000,000 ad versity-tempered citizens, the sanitation workers' strike was merely a nuisance at first. By the end of last week, it had turned into a genuine crisis. Nearly 100,000 tons of uncollected garbage lay in noisome heaps on sidewalks...