Word: reopenings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smashing Chinese Faces. Part of the government's dilemma is that it lacks the troops to defend Phnom-Penh and at the same time reopen the Mekong, a critical problem that would not be solved by the receipt of more military-aid funds from the U.S. Cambodian forces around the capital are already spread dangerously thin, the result of the nearly total destruction of a division in that area during this year's fighting. The high command feels it should not risk taking any soldiers away from Phnom-Penh; yet the river must be reopened to convoys...
...said he did not believe he had the constitutional power to grant blanket amnesty to the rebels-especially since one of the guards had already died in the hospital after his skull was fractured at the beginning of the riot. In Rockefeller's action-a euphemistic order to "reopen the institution"-Wicker sees a man not "callous and careless of human life," but one dedicated to maintaining "the order of things...
...another Swiss meeting, Kissinger sought Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's support in maintaining the Middle East momentum. Kissinger's suggestion that the Russians back off from their persistent demands to reopen the Geneva conference was more or less rebuffed. Gromyko was more interested in other discussions on SALT, U.S.Soviet trade, the European Security Conference, and Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev's visit to Washington next summer. On Geneva, however, the two could agree only that the conference should reconvene "at an early date." In the involved semantics of diplomacy, Kissinger's aides insisted, it signaled that...
...Angeles district attorney's office has adamantly refused to reopen the Sirhan case despite the district attorney's personal admission that the gun which supposedly killed Kennedy had been tampered with while held as evidence...
...beginning to take on the same character for many people as questions like "What ever happened to Amelia Earhart?". In addition, the integration of serious research and solid evidence with pure fantasy has weakened the appeal of many legitimate investigators. But it may be possible to compel Congress to reopen the cases, just by the weight of evidence already uncovered. One Congressman, Texas Democrat Henry Gonzales, has already called for such a step. This should be the primary objective of all researchers. Independent investigations can only pose the questions. If some form of a real resolution is at all possible...