Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Save for Britain and France, the only European nations in the alliance, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was virtually solid in its support of the U.S. "Only those on the side of the aggressors are against this move," said Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman. "The sinews of war must be destroyed." Added Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Narciso Ramos: "About time...
...another Danang marine: Corporal Walter Eckes, 20, of New York City. Eckes had been captured four days after Dodson by three Viet Cong dressed in government uniforms as he waited beside a main highway. The two marines were the only English-speaking residents in the lightly guarded camp, save for a planted Vietnamese Communist pretending to be a captured Special Forces soldier...
...number of rooms have been let to film folk, some of the locals have been hired as extras-and Rex Harrison and Samantha Eggar are due to arrive any day now. Says Mrs. Nan Tresilian, proprietor of an antique shop called the Unicorn Gallery, and a leader in the save-the-village movement: "The people most shocked are the American tourists. They come in here with their hair standing on end, asking, 'How could you let it happen...
...remarkably recent phenomenon: until the last year or so, the Athabasca Indians who largely make up the village's population of 270 lived in dismal shacks, barely subsisting by trapping and fishing. Just a decade ago, residents recall vividly, donated food had to be airlifted from Anchorage to save them from starvation...
...harassment when they ordered the palace staff cut and demanded that the Emperor renounce his "divinity." Far from aiming to "cut the Emperor down to size," as Mosley suggests, MacArthur was implementing a plan that had been drawn up long before Japan toppled. The U.S. needed the Emperor to save the Japanese nation from disintegration. But only by destroying the myths of royal invincibility and divinity could the victors set the stage for political democracy in Japan. The plan succeeded admirably-and it is the reason Hirohito is the happy and admired monarch he is today...