Word: san
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very midst to sow confusion. Then, from north and south, the Communists charged in force. The big U.S. 155-mm. guns were lowered to fire pointblank, and cooks and headquarters clerks joined the gun crews in manning the defense. U.S. planes, directed by Sergeant Mark Ridley of San Antonio, soon swept in to blast the attackers. When the attack began, Ridley and his squad found themselves out on patrol a quarter of a mile from the camp and with a direct view of the enemy's principal rallying point. Time and again as the Communists moved to fresh attack...
...arranged at Nasser's behest and convenience, fears that Nasser will put the bite on him for more money. Feisal has no intention of increasing his payments. Indeed, he has taken advantage of the Egyptian withdrawal from Yemen to promote a Royalist offensive against the Republican capital of San'a. If he can dislodge the Yemeni Republicans, Feisal hopes that he will then be in a position to contain the expansionist-minded N.L.F. regime in South Yemen and possibly even engineer the return of the sheiks to power...
...Feisal's hopes have been frustrated. The Royalist drive, which cost him an estimated $300 million in arms and outright bribes, bogged down last month when paid Royalist agents reneged on a promise to stage an uprising within the capital. Royalist troops still surround San'a, exchanging fire with Republican units by day and shelling the city at night, but they lack the tanks and armored trucks necessary to finish the job. The longer they delay, the harder their task becomes. The Republican army is fast getting arms and training from Russia, which has stepped into Nasser...
...into a broader four-year liberal arts institution. The state-college system in California, with 18 campuses in operation and four more in the works, has 142,000 students, thus is twice as large as the nine-campus University of California. Some of these colleges, such as freewheeling San Francisco State and San Diego State, justifiably claim that they are better than many a public university elsewhere-and, in fact, are bitter about their lack of university status. Pennsylvania maintains a strong system of 13 state colleges (including famed Slippery Rock), which have grown from 15,979 students ten years...
...San Francisco recently, Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph McGucken signed the final contracts to build an $8,000,000 replacement for the old, Gothic St. Mary's Cathedral, which burned to the ground in 1962. Much to his surprise, a group of priests and laymen objected to his plans for the cathedral, on the grounds that the money should be used instead for humanitarian projects such as low-cost housing for the poor. The protesters cited Pope Paul's encyclical Populorum Progressio and the Vatican Council's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World in arguing against...