Word: que
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways, the fighting in South Viet Nam has almost faded away. American casualty rates are at the lowest level in four years. A huge sweep by 6,500 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in the Que Son Valley near Danang has turned up almost no enemy forces in an area that has long been a center of Communist activity. But in cities and hamlets throughout the country, a war of terror is rapidly heating up. The number of murders, kidnapings and other terrorist incidents has risen from 654 in January to 1,094 last month. The incidents last week...
...austere and functional that it looks rather like an IBM office. The hotel and apartment interiors, however, are elegantly decorated, with heavy emphasis on Knoll and Herman Miller furniture. One of the highlights of the main complex of buildings is a combination restaurant, coffee shop and discothèque, done in Plexiglas and effectively brightened by blue lacquer paint. The lift station houses a giant téléphérique (capacity: 60); in all, there are ten lifts and 35 miles of well-balanced runs...
...buying into Les Arcs must be approved by a seven-man board of investors. The result is a homogeneous clientele roughly between the ages of 30 and 45, drawn mostly from publishing and the arts. Although it is primarily designed for serious skiers, it also offers a discothèque with a swimming pool attached, and a theater where the seat are giant plastic puffs filled with rice grains...
Beyond the beaches and hotels, Gambia offers little in the way of action. Bathurst, the capital, has a scattering of rickety bars, and there is a discothéque, located on a rusty hulk moored to Bathurst pier. The bars draw a splendid selection of the local layabouts, who cadge drinks off the Swedes, and there is hot competition these days for a waiter's job at one of the hotels. Only last year, it seems, a strapping Swedish gym mistress selected one of the Atlantic's diminutive waiters as a husband...
...stand. Students have warned me that the government might plant marijuana in my valise or "get" me in some other way. I treated it lightly but in the last three days the headquarters of the opposition party, National Action Party, was bombed and the editor of Por Que, a leftist journal, has been kidnapped. Also, we have been struck by the reluctance of the Mexican intellectuals and professors to speak out against the PRI. They tell us in private of their hatred of the PRI and of its corruption. Fear for their jobs prevents them from speaking in public...