Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fiercely Exasperated. The diplomatic exploration grew in drama and widened in scope. Washington employed a still-anonymous foreign intermediary to sound out officials in Hanoi last month, meanwhile suspending bombing in the Hanoi-Haiphong region. Italy's Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani met with North Vietnamese envoys in Rome, sent Washington a lengthy report of Hanoi's views. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant jetted to New Delhi, Moscow, London and Paris, arriving back in Manhattan last week. Hanoi made an other gesture-plainly calculated, no matter how welcome-by releasing three captured U.S. flyers...
...Communist forces moving into South Viet Nam, at least 2,500 North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops have surrounded the southern provincial capital, Saravane. The city is important because it sits astride Route 23, a main feeder to the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and commands the whole southern region. Last week an outnumbered royalist force of 1,000 managed to turn back attacks on two outposts defending it, but lost a third. "Some say the fighting in Laos is a forgotten war," said Brigadier General Oudone Sananikone, the Royal Army chief of staff, "but how can we forget what...
...work of Meir Ben-Uri, 59, one of Israel's leading religious painters and synagogue designers, who made a long, scholarly study of the historical evidence. Many geologists reckon that around 4000 B.C. a flood devastated what is now Iraq; archaeologists have dug up cuneiform tablets in the region relating the tale of a man who survived by building a vessel...
...group's vocal range is as wide and impressive as that of their dynamics. The first tenors more than once soared into the ethereal region two octaves above middle C, while the second basses were continually plumbing the depths and at one point actually reached the third B-flat below middle...
Rarely did any baby ever have such a baptism. The sacramental salt for the ceremony came from Andalusia-a symbol, said the baby's father, of that region's graciousness and warmth. The water was flown in from the River Jordan. The minister was the Archbishop of Madrid, and the guests included members of three royal families (Greece, Bulgaria and Spain), two Spanish Cabinet ministers and Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Thus last week, in the 20-room Zarzuela Palace on the outskirts of Madrid, Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso y Todos los Santos de Borbón, who might...