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Word: regions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believes is "the next victim" of Communism in Southeast Asia. "Even today," he said, "the Communists are infiltrating Thailand and increasing their subversive actions against our country." In fact, at least 2,000 guerrillas are busy spreading terror through Thailand's Northeast, the country's poorest region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: The Air Commandos: Preventive Medicine | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...Trap. Within three years, Frewen had married Clara Jerome, the daughter of a New York financier (her younger sister Jennie had recently married Lord Randolph Churchill). He had also regularized the shipment of champagne to the Powder River settlement, introduced white riding breeches and the English saddle to the region, made a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, and become manager of a cattle empire capitalized at $1.5 million. In 1884, his sixth year in Wyoming, his Powder River company declared a dividend of 24%. The next year, however, a combination of bad weather, rustlers, homesteaders and an obtuse board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empire Bungler | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...riot develop," admits Reddin, who was then a deputy chief. "Using accepted practice on the second day, we isolated the area, reasoning that the rioters would riot themselves out and go home. So what happened? Other riots broke out in other areas." In the end, the insurrection encompassed a region roughly the size of San Francisco. There was little liaison with other agencies, particularly the National Guard, and commanders often could not communicate with patrol cars because their radios operated on different frequencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: POLICE: THE THIN BLUE LINE | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...number by last week had reached 66, most of them tied and mangled. Last week the China-watchers got another indication of the state of affairs in side China when a batch of newspaper photographs reached Hong Kong from Wuchow, a river-trade city in the Kwangsi region of South China. Although blurred and faded, the pictures provided the first photographic proof of the recent ravages caused by factional fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: More Violent than Imagined | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...this, the bank offers technical assistance where necessary, as well as surveys of its findings, including a recent study of food problems facing Indonesia and South Korea. Watanabe's pragmatic belief, which is reflected in such projects as the Thai loan and the Filipino study, is that "the region's first concern is feeding itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Self-Help with Outside Help | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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