Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press, over banquet tables and in chancelleries the world over, China is making a prodigious effort to reassure its concerned friends. The weekly Peking Review has told the North Vietnamese that China is "your reliable rear area," crooned to Albania that "our hearts are closely linked," promised North Korea to "share weal and woe and fight to the end to defeat the common enemy." Last week at a Peking dinner for visiting Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, China's Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien made an all-purpose pledge to "stand by the Algerian and other Asian, African...
...instructor, who was in a second jet, had been practicing formation turns. Neither Sabre jet had radar, and it was only at the last second that Ichikawa's instructor told him to climb and turn. Ichikawa recalled later: "I saw a civilian plane approach from the rear and felt a jolt in my tail." The young pilot was able to bail out safely. Both he and his instructor were being held by police on possible involuntary homicide charges...
...audience does nothing else, it can always enjoy this year's new visual delights within the 75-ft. proscenium. At stage rear and stage right are two modular kinetic sculptures by Czechoslovakia's Milan Dobes, 41, that provide a light-show backdrop of spinning whites, reds and blues for Mayuzumi's Concerto for Percussion. Even the players' chairs are part of a huge steel stage sculpture designed by Japan's Yasuhide Kobashi. Perhaps "chairs" is not the best word: the seats are actually wood slats fastened like steps up and down vertical tubes that...
...Mediterranean. Warns U.S. Admiral Horacio Rivero Jr., the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) commander of NATO forces in southern Europe: "What was traditionally NATO's southern flank has developed into its southern front. The Mediterranean, which was for NATO part of the zone of the interior, a rear area, is now within the battle zone." Concern filters down to officers at sea with the fleet. "There is no feeling now of being on a second team," says Captain John E. Hansen, skipper of the 62,000-ton carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt. Says Commander Richard Hopper, who heads the Roosevelt...
...VIETNAM, BUTCHERS OUT OF HARVARD. J. Lawrence McCarty, an official of the American Conservative Party serving as moderator for the Teach-in, attempted to introduce the first speaker. After it had become plain that he was not being heard, Archibald Cox '34, Harvard's troubleshooter, appeared from the rear of the stage, walked to the rostrum, and begged the crowd to quiet down. Near tears as he spoke, he asked the disrupters to "answer what is said here with more teach-ins and more truth, but let the speakers be heard." The crowd chanted more loudly, and Cox retired...