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BANGKOK, Thailand--Diplomatic efforts began Wednesday in Bangkok, Beijing and Paris to try to resolve the 11-year-old Cambodian war, following reports of guerrilla attacks in Phnom Penh and Cambodia's second-largest city...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nations Try to Resolve Cambodian Conflict | 1/10/1990 | See Source »

Then came the nightmare of Tet. At dawn Viet Nam time on Jan. 30, 1968, fireworks sputtered in celebration of the lunar new year. Amid the cacophony, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked Da Nang, South Viet Nam's second-largest city, and seven other major towns, breaking the Tet truce. Within 24 hours they hit 36 of 44 provincial capitals and overran almost all of the former colonial capital of Hue. Communist shock troops penetrated the heart of Saigon to attack the U.S. embassy and presidential palace. They drove General William Westmoreland into a windowless command bunker. "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War | 2/2/1989 | See Source »

...Leninakan, Armenia's second-largest city near the Turkish border, stacks of red, black or unfinished wood coffins were piled on street corners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Transport Plane Crash Kills 78 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...hails from Miskolc, the second-largest city in Hungary. For the past eight years she lived in Budapest, where she worked for a bank. After completing her master's degree in economics, Karossy decided she wanted to study abroad...

Author: By Matthew C. Moehlman, | Title: From Marxism to Marketing | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...another issue awaits resolution tomorrow night, when a three-month moratorium on the sale of taxi medallions ends. The city's taxis have been under this ban since December, and Yellow Cab, the second-largest taxi company in the city, will also emerge from a special three-year ban on the sale of medallions from its fleet...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: Council Debates Smoking, New Cab Rules | 3/24/1987 | See Source »

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