Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bridge spanning the Somme near Amiens, with a thick oaken lattice separating them, to settle a war in Picardy. The three feuding princes of Laos -Souphanouvong, Souvanna Phouma and Boun Oum, similarly met in the middle of a bridge over the Nam Lik River in 1961 to launch the talks that eventually led to the country's tenuous neutralization. When Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia met in 1807 to carve up Europe in the Treaty of Tilsit, the site for preliminary talks was an elaborate barge anchored in the River Memel in Prussia. The precedence problem was solved...
...Fatah's signal, a band of Arabs sets out across the Jordan River on rafts made from tractor tires, carrying their Russian-made Kalashnikov assault rifles in waterproof inner tubes. In the darkness they land, make their way inland, plant a mine, ambush an Israeli patrol or throw a grenade, then scramble as best they can for home. The odds are heavily against their making it back, for many are caught or killed by efficient Israeli security forces. But the rewards are high, as posthumous compensations go. They are martyrs to all Arabs, their photographs and tales of their...
...August 1967, El Fatah was ready to try to launch an underground revolt among the Arabs on the now occupied West Bank. Hundreds of guerrillas trekked across the Jordan River, only to be rounded up by Israeli forces. To head off any future attempts, the Israelis blew up the homes of any Palestinians who cooperated with Arafat's men. El Fatah's next phase was a campaign that sent smaller groups to hide in caves or live with sympathetic Arabs, and venture out at night to set mines or time bombs. Israel hit back at their riverside guerrilla...
...newest Israeli countermeasure is an electronic barrier that stretches about 40 miles along the Jordan River Valley. The fence is a smaller version of the one that former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once envisioned putting up in Viet Nam below the DMZ to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration. It consists of an outer line of 8-ft.-high barbed wire and an inner, 5-ft.-high line 10 yds. away. The space between is laced with mines. At irregular intervals along the fence are strung electronic sensing devices, which raise an alarm in adjacent guard posts when an infiltrator tries...
...still have problems coming to terms with "Christmas," start thinking how different it is from the summer be-ins, spring on the banks of the river with a transistor, fall touch football up and down Plympton St. Christmas is a big secret that everyone else knows. Maybe you wish everyone else didn't know it so you didn't have to ho-ho-ho your way down Mass Ave person by person. But let me ask you, what else do you have that you could be doing when December comes in to rattle the heat pipes if you didn...