Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mondolkiri forest. The frustrated sender of the plea was the commander of two Khmer Rouge infantry companies. He had been cut off in the forest by Vietnamese troops who had invaded Cambodia (Democratic Kampuchea). The broadcast was futile; Khmer commanders were too scattered and too harried to respond to the call. Like most other units in the estimated 73,000-man Communist Khmer Rouge force deployed to face the six-pronged Vietnamese attack, the isolated companies in the Mondolkiri forest had been outgunned and outmaneuvered...
...successful invasion had been carried out so swiftly that it was a fait accompli before most parties were prepared to respond to it or to propose effective retaliation. Only the Japanese government acted decisively. Tokyo announced that it would delay promised grants and loans of $70 million to Hanoi until the situation became clearer...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced that the Shah would indeed leave soon on an extended vacation. It was a sound idea, added Vance, "and we concur with that decision." Wary of appearing to meddle in Iran's crisis, Washington issued discreet instructions to Ambassador William Sullivan to respond affirmatively if the Shah asked his advice about leaving the country. It was clear that the longer he remained, the more difficult would be the process of unifying the nation. Bakhtiar later announced that the Shah might leave this week. Among skeptics, that message gained credibility at week...
Anderson will give a short informal speech followed by a discussion of his remarks by a panel of three Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors. Anderson will have time to respond to their remarks and then will answer questions from the floor...
...some records in Switzerland. A federal judge ordered the company to pay Ohio $60,000 in legal costs. Another judge, citing "flagrant bad faith," simply threw out the antitrust claim of New York City's Metropolitan Hockey Club Inc. (later Golden Blades) after it failed to respond to hundreds of interrogatories from the defendant, the National Hockey League, for 17 months. Upheld by the Supreme Court, the ruling has led to what University of Texas Law Professor Charles Alan Wright calls "a tougher attitude by lower courts...