Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escapees. Inundated by nearly 250,000 Indochinese refugees-80,000 Cambodians, 24,000 Vietnamese and 138,000 Laotians-Thailand says its facilities have been strained to the breaking point and its national security is threatened. Amid reports that as many as 300,000 Cambodians are still trying to reach their country, Thai officials last week took drastic action...
...Czestochowa shrine there was one brief scuffle between police and pilgrims. A priest also took the microphone to announce: "Let us pray for those who cannot reach Czestochowa because they are stopped." The regime denied the persistent reports that it was hindering pilgrims in order to cut down the crowds. Supposedly, roadblocks were set up to prevent traffic jams in the cities, but a Western diplomat ran into one a full 19 miles away from Cracow before the Pope's arrival there. Church officials reported to friends that in various cases the buses for pilgrims that were promised in order...
...good fellow," then kept yelling for more songs. Replied the Pope: "I was the Metropolitan of Cracow too long not to know that the Silesians never get enough." After he arrived at Cracow, his former see, in historic Wawel Cathedral white-clad priests jostled and shoved each other to reach their former superior and kiss his ring...
...great-power entanglements and to preserve their hard-sought independence. They have not succeeded. With surprising swiftness, Viet Nam has in the past three months turned increasingly to the Soviets for help in keeping its far-flung military machine running. In return, Moscow has extended its strategic and military reach into Southeast Asia with a vigor that has alarmed Japan and the Association of South East Asian Nations and certainly angered China...
...Western Bund friends, refuses to watch the two U.S.-made westerns currently appearing on West German TV, Gunsmoke and The Virginian. Nobody, he scoffs, ever really said in the Old West, "Sie ritten da 'long " (They went thataway), much less, "Streck die Hände zum Himmel" (Reach for the sky). John Wayne barely escapes Old Joe's fusillade of complaints about Hollywood phoniness. "Inaccurate scripts aren't his fault," he allowed...