Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Using their own cars, emblazoned with newly painted red and green crosses, the students ran an improvised ambulance service for wounded demonstrators. Careening through the crowded streets, their horns blaring, the cars were as much a menace as an aid to the demonstrators. On the Boulevard St. Germain, one bearded student tried to clear a lane for the cars by shouting: "If you get your head busted by an ambulance, it's not a political...
...Tran Chanh Tranh, a diplomat and political independent who is not close to either Thieu or Ky, became Foreign Minister. Four-star General Tran Thien Khiem, an ally of President Thieu and presently Ambassador to Taiwan, was named Interior Minister. Dr. Phan Quang Dan, a vice-presidential candidate who ran against the Thieu-Ky military ticket in the September elections, got the ministry dealing with defectors. Huong kept for himself the Rural Development Ministry, responsible for pacification. "The life and death of this country depend on this government," the Premier declared at the Cabinet installation. "We will...
...were soon clouded in confusion, contradiction and half-truths. But one thing was certain: the invaders, in their clumsy way, meant business. Before word of the bombing reached the north, the commander of the Cap Haitien garrison drove out to the airport to investigate the landings and ran into a hail of bullets; he was seriously wounded and two aides with him were killed...
...Soviet Union, the book has already circulated at home. Soviet intellectuals pass around unpublished manuscripts like chain letters, copy by hand or mimeograph the manuscripts lent them. In the case of Cancer Ward, ironically, that chore was performed by the state publishing house, which set type and ran off proofs of the book while it was still scheduled for official publication last December. At the last moment, government censors balked at Solzhenitsyn's bitter indictment. By that time, however, as Soviet Novelist Venyamin Kaverin revealed recently, "thousands" of galleys existed, and many sets "sold, it is said, for large...
Last week, though, state legislators postponed any serious consideration of the plan for at least a year. And in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a pilot project designed to test decentralization ran into serious trouble. The case suggested that, if ill-defined and badly administered, the cure might be as bad as the ailment...