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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blasted out of the jungle by parachute-dropped 15,000-lb. bombs. From one of the new bases, code-named Sophia, 1,500 crack ARVN 1st Division troops punched five miles northward through brisk Communist fire. Backed by prodigious U.S. airpower, they exultantly entered Tchepone, the key Communist transshipment site that had been pinpointed as a major objective. Almost immediately, 1,000 reinforcements were helilifted to the heights commanding the battered town, and ARVN commanders prepared for what may well be the climax of the Laotian campaign: a pitched battle with massed North Vietnamese forces. Tchepone bid fair...
...climax of screen painting occurred during the Momoyama period (1573-1614) when a group of Japanese warlords moved Japan's capital from Kyoto to a fishing village called Edo, now the site of modern Tokyo. Their gloomy castles with gloomy interiors needed an especially sumptuous kind of decoration. Screen painters like Kaihō Yushō supplied it. Yushō's Fish Nets, with its jagged forms of dark blue sea and gold-leaf land, traversed by the swooping rhythms of the nets strung out to dry on poles, transforms an everyday sight into an event of monumental starkness...
...responded to Cox in a press conference held last night. They stated that they had "set two conditions for leaving this building: that space and money be provided for a women's center and that Harvard University build low-cost housing for the Riverside community on this, the Treeland site...
Although the women acknowledged Harvard's alleged willingness to discuss the housing, they said that Cox was "misinformed" about the availability of space for an alternate site for a women's center...
Graham told the women that with their intervention the Riverside community feared that it would lose its role in negotiations with Harvard over low-income housing to be built on the Treelands site. The women then agreed to clarify their housing demand so as to stress that the talks should take place directly between Harvard and the community...