Word: scatteredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Save Your General! This had also been the frustrating pattern farther north, in the Kivu region, where for weeks, shouting, spear-waving rebels had threatened Bukavu, the biggest town (pop. 33,500) of the eastern Congo. Government troops clearly had the weapons and the manpower to deal harshly with the...
The big question in South Viet Nam was: "Whatever happened to the war?" Communist terror against civilians continued. But in military operations, it was the sixth consecutive week of only scattered and brief engagements, which the Viet Cong broke off with surprising readiness. One explanation: the guerrilla commanders, concerned by...
As the boys emptied the wide-mouthed urn over the water, a single cannon boomed a farewell salute, the military band fell silent, and the vast crowd roared, "Nehru amar hail [Nehru is immortal]." The remainder of the ashes were scattered all over India, from the beautiful green Vale of...
Into the Ganges. Though Nehru's will had specifically requested no religious ceremonies after his death (Nehru was an avowed agnostic), his daughter Indira Gandhi had ordered the funeral performed with full Hindu religious customs and traditions. Nehru also had asked that a handful of his ashes be thrown...
According to one Vatican official, the Holy Office letter was issued "because there has been a change in attitudes toward burial and cremation around the world." Most non-Roman Christians long ago accepted cremation as no less reverent than interment, and Catholic theologians agree that God could just as easily...