Word: rai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist insurgency is raging in the northeast, new trouble came from rebel Meo tribes men in the remote hills of northwest ern Nan province. Though only 100 to 200 strong, the Communist-led tribesmen have consistently bushwacked government patrols, killing more than 30 men. Last week in nearby Chiang Rai province, another Meo band shot down a government helicopter. The increased guerrilla activity may provide the power holder in Thailand's military regime, General Praphas Charusathien, with an excuse for postponing elections due this fall. Ordering Thai newspapers to print the grisliest photographs taken during the Tet offensive...
...Third Army" of General Lee Wun-huan, headquartered near the Thai city of Chiang Mai, and the "Fifth Army" of General Tuan Hsi-wan, with a base camp near Chiang Rai...
Paris Match, the French picture magazine, chartered a Caravelle jet to fly 55 staffers and a photo processing lab to the Holy Land. RAI, Italy's government-owned broadcasting system, borrowed an L.S.T. from the Italian Navy, debarked 35 vehicles and 245 men. Tiny Lebanon managed to deploy a journalistic force of 60. Even Tass, the Russian news service, and the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, put correspondents on the scene. All told, some 1,200 newsmen from 34 countries converged on the first papal visit to the Holy Land. Inevitably, the press and its photographers made much...
Grade-B Thriller. The campaign reached a peak with the arrival in Algiers last month of six men from Italy's state-owned radio-TV network, RAI. Scarcely had the newcomers registered at the flea-bitten Hotel Aletti when S.A.O. gunmen invaded the hotel and, under the studiously indifferent gaze of hotel employees, not only made off with $8,000 worth of RAI equipment but kidnaped an Italian newsman as well. Fifteen minutes too late, the armed French riot police showed...
...revolution started in 1910, it did not reach its climax until the six-year period from 1934 through 1940, when President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated foreign oil companies. Since then, Mexican Presidents have turned to the right, encouraging domestic and foreign private enterprise. The government itself became big business, running rai roads and oil, sharing investments with private capital through its own development corporation, Nacional Financiera...