Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does Manila (pop. 1,300,000), where the polarities of the nation are reflected in microcosm. Sprawled on both sides of the sluggish Pasig River, the city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge...
...killed more than 50 Japanese, spiked the guns, and escaped with only one casualty. Marcos won the first of a brace of Silver Stars for the operation, and a few weeks later was recommended for the U.S. Medal of Honor for his part in the defense of the Salian River. But the recommendation was never filed with Washington, and Marcos failed in becoming the only Filipino to win America's highest military award...
...birthplace of Cabinet ministers makes little difference to most Vietnamese, but the southerners in the regime resent the powers and patronage that the northerners enjoy. The feud came to a head in the Health Ministry, where Deputy Minister Nguyen Tan Loc, a native of the south's Mekong River Delta, decided to right the balance...
Stolen Eggs. The dragon, who lives in the Mekong River in front of the Lan Xang Hotel in Vientiane, is a powerful force to the spirit-worshiping Laotians. He is also angry. His daughter laid three eggs this summer; they were stolen, and the dragon wants them back...
...peasant fled in terror to Kong Le, who sent Souvanna Phouma a telegram warning of impending disaster. Souvanna, who does not believe in dragons, shrugged it away. Even when the Mekong River started to rise, he attributed it simply to the annual monsoon rains. But the river kept on rising, to a 40-year high, which put the lower sections of the city 'deep under swirling brown water. Suddenly, Parisian education or no, the prince changed his mind: he could be blamed for the disaster unless he followed the dragon's instructions. He called on Kong...