Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Odds-On Bet. Who could that be? Hardly anybody, but logic favors a running mate from the Midwest, since that is the battleground which may be crucial for the Democrats in the coming campaign. The leading contender from that region is Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. Another possibility is Senator Eugene McCarthy, also from Minnesota, and a Catholic...
...Khanh week after week has stumped the backlands, pumping peasant hands, delivering speeches, doing what he could to rally the populace behind his Central Government. Last week, still at it, Khanh took time out to climb aboard his special DC-3 for a flying tour of the central coastal region. Dropping in on the fishing town of Hamtan, by the South China Sea-the first time in the republic's history that its head of government had visited the place-Khanh set the locals agog. Elegant in camouflage-pattern combat fatigues, he strolled down a sandy street, chatted with...
...served as consultant to various city and state planning boards and to Indonesia on the location and development of a new city of 100,000 population in South Sumatra. He has also worked on the Guayana Region Project in Venezela and in 1959 helped the Bandung Institute of Technology in Indonesia organize a School of Regional and City Planning...
...invitation to lunch with Field Marshal Montgomery. "We have not come to France to have luncheon with Montgomery," he said scornfully, and headed straight for the first sizable town to be liberated-Bayeux. He promptly took over and installed his faithful deputy Francois Coulet as administrative head of the region. Coulet promptly fired the incumbent Vichyite subprefect, whom the British had instructed to stay on the job, and replaced him with a Resistance fighter. It was a simple coup d'etat: when the infuriated British came to protest, Coulet banged his fist "on his new desk, shouting: "My presence...
...most heavily infested area is the hilly El Bachiller region 90 miles east of Caracas. There, for the past three weeks, the government has been mounting a small war against an estimated 100 to 300 guerrillas. Acting on a tip from loyal peasants, the government brought in combat troops to wipe out the Castroites. Venezuelan air force B-25s swept overhead, dropping anti-personnel bombs; 105-mm. artillery shelled the heavily wooded hillsides-a tactic more likely to produce a psychological than a military advantage. In 21 days of sniping and patrol-sized fire fights, seven Castroites were killed...