Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mighty hard to tell the new craters from the old," remarked a pilot returning from the battered Panhandle. Cratered anew were the Quang Khe missile complex, the Due Tho storage area, and a spread of staging areas, oil dumps and antiaircraft sites. Though flak has thinned considerably in the region, two U.S. planes were shot down. As one pilot's parachute was buffeted by tricky wind currents, his anxious wingman radioed to ask him how he was doing. "Swinging, man," came the reply...
...flyers clowned by the Nazis during World War II. Rather, it is the harshness of the country itself. An escapee from a Southeast Asian prison camp must burrow through rotting rain forests, fight off swarms of bugs, swim mighty, mud-thick rivers that cut between the region's steep mountains, and find a way to signal the U.S. rescue planes that orbit high over the jungle. Last week the most recent escapee told a harrowing tale of his trudge back to freedom...
...Pyrenees, Canaan, N.Y. Probably the best restaurant in the upper Hudson and Berkshire region. French food prepared by Chef Louis Cherallier, who takes special pride in his canard a I'orange, jealously guards the secret. Expensive...
Goerner estimates that twelve days later a Japanese fishing boat reached the couple. They were taken aboard and later transferred either to the Japanese seaplane tender Kamoi or to the survey ship Koshu, which was known to be in the region. From his talks with natives, Goerner concludes that the flyers were taken first to Jaluit, then Kwajalein, and finally to Saipan, Japan's military headquarters in the Pacific; a number of Saipanese say that they saw a man and a woman who resembled Noonan and Earhart. Goerner quotes native sources as saying that Earhart probably died of dysentery...
...January, Thai border police fought a gun duel with 57 Communist terrorists. In July, a Thai army unit, sweeping the region's Route 5, reported killing 18 guerrillas and arresting 140 suspects. A few weeks later, a Thai-Malay patrol moving in Land Rovers through a jungle gorge in southern Thailand's Betong district was ambushed, and ten of its 15 members killed. The attack shocked both Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur into action. Fortnight ago, Malaysian Home Minister Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman and Thailand's Deputy Defense Minister Dawee Chullasapaya sat down in Bangkok...