Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major "confrontation" countries, the issues of war and peace were the main topics. In Syria, the group members were driven directly from the airport across a rocky plain to the Golan Heights, where they inspected the scene of a pitched tank battle of the 1973 war. Two days later, when they crossed the Jordan River into Israel, their hosts ushered them into two huge air-force helicopters for an inspection tour of the Israeli side of the battle line and a detailed briefing by Raphael Eitan, the major general who heads the Israeli "Northern Command." Standing on a destroyed Soviet...
...Plain of Jars is an area in northeastern Laos that was bombed consistently by American planes from 1964 to 1969. The people of the Plain of Jars, who suffered the experiences of direct contest with Honeywell's military inventions, as well as those of other corporations, can best convey how the United States government put them weapons to use. A 16-year-old student wrote...
...unfortunate precedent," tuttutted a Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial. Judge De Vinne admitted that he did not know whether such a ruling had ever been made before. But, he said, "I felt it was a good decision. It put blame where it belonged...
...British officer, Summersby, a former actress and model, was assigned to drive Eisenhower during an inspection tour of London in May 1942. Her constant association with the general throughout the war stirred rumors that she was his mistress. The speculation gained credence from Harry Truman's statement in Plain Speaking; he had seen a letter from Ike to General George Marshall saying he planned to divorce Mamie to marry Summersby. Summersby, who later married an American stockbroker, denied the alleged liaison throughout her life, saying, "I am admitting nothing, mind you, except that I have never been...
Ward, a balding and bespectacled man who wore a conservative gray suit and a plain white shirt, remained calm during examination by Flanagan, who said yesterday that he travelled to Pittsburgh two months ago to confirm that Ward would testify...