Word: secreted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength and duration of the Red offensive came as an unpleasant, even humiliating surprise. In the midst of his own headquarters outside Saigon, U.S. Commander General William C. Westmoreland was forced to take refuge in a windowless command center. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker had to be whisked to a secret hideout...
...Airborne Division at nearby Bien Hoa landed on the embassy's rooftop helipad. Working their way down, they met no resistance. Though V.C. prisoners are usually turned over to the Saigon government, this time the troopers had orders to kill every V.C. in sight, lest any had seen secret codes or plans in the embassy...
...claimed that Escalante had tried to arrange a trip to Moscow with "Russian Journalist" Vadim Lestov-actually, an NKVD agent-"to put forth his opinions" on how the Kremlin could whip Castro into line. In a secret report to Lestov, which ended up in Raúl's hands, Escalante criticized the government and warned that Fidel was planning to expand trade ties with France, thereby lessening Russian leverage...
...Secret Report. The charges grew out of a long-winded report delivered before the Central Committee by Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother and the chief of Cuba's armed forces and internal security. Named as the conspiracy's ringleader was Anibal Escalante, 59, a onetime party chieftain who fell from favor in 1962 for his pro-Soviet views but was later allowed to return to Cuba after a two-year exile in Prague. This time, said Raúl, Escalante had organized an anti-Castro movement that extended into several key government ministries, the University...
Died. David Stacton, 42, U.S. historical novelist; of a stroke; near Copenhagen. Often brilliant, sometimes exasperating, Stacton wrote 13 novels illuminating history's dark corners, from the courts of Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony), to 14th century Japan (Segaki), to the assassination of Lincoln (The Judges of the Secret Court). In each, his epigrammatic, sinewy prose evoked the ambiance of an age so effectively that critics rated him one of the best of the postwar crop of American authors...