Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last October's Western Region parliamentary elections, the N.N.A. rather blatantly rigged the ballot boxes. Many opposition candidates were scrubbed from the ballot; key election officials were kidnaped. In the final "official" count by the Western Region's pro-North government, the N.N.A. finished with 74 of Parliament's 94 seats...
...most remarkable shots, taken by Lovell as Gemini 7 soared over the Wadi Hadhramaut region in Aden, shows with exceptional clarity a delicate, frostlike pattern of valleys and ridges that should delight both cartographers and geologists. One shot shows Borman concentrating on the use of an inflight vision tester; another shows Lovell peering out of his capsule, admiring the incomparable view from orbit. A closeup picture of Borman illustrates the effects of zero G in space: hovering near his head is a camera-film magazine floating weightlessly during orbit...
First came last October's startling memorandum from the West German Evangelical Church partly justifying the loss of the Oder-Neisse region in terms of German war guilt. More recently, it has been the Polish Catholics who have seemed to seek a new basis for understanding...
Saigon thinks the enemy may well try to pair its new terrorist campaign with an offensive in the field. Most likely spot: the Kontum-Pleiku region in the western highlands, where the Ho Chi Minh trail feeds men and supplies from Laos into South Viet Nam. The Communists have been notably quiet there since the bloody battles in the la Drang valley last month. Intelligence experts say they detect signs that the North Vietnamese regulars are busily regrouping, perhaps preparing for an unprecedented division-sized assault...
...between the coastal Marine enclaves at Danang and Chu Lai. The province, for more than a year a hardcore Communist stronghold beyond the reach of government troops, is a paddy-checkered producer of rice used to feed enemy troops. It is harvest time. And Viet Cong control of the region has made Route One-the natural north-south highway between Danang and Chu Lai-too hazardous for allied...