Word: soils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last thing Britain wants is troops from other nations on Central African soil. Yet one of Africa's elder statesmen, Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, was also working up to a similar demand. Kenyatta petitioned the U.N. Security Council to declare embargoes on Rhodesia under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which would most likely require a U.N. force to police them. Britain does have a veto in the Security Council but the General Assembly can also vote to send such a force...
...bamboo way stations within Laotian territory has been the major route south for some 45,000 Communist infiltrators heading to battle in South Viet Nam. This, despite North Viet Nam's solemn signature on the 1962 Geneva accord guaranteeing Laos' neutrality and barring foreign troops from Laotian soil. The infiltration now comes to an estimated 4,500 bo dot (regular infantrymen) a month. More than one third of the "trail" has been converted into broad-shouldered, two-lane dirt highways. Truck convoys move by night, along with pack elephants and rubber-sandaled coolies...
...soft, dark grey substance that geologists call "quick clay" is composed primarily of small flaky particles and a great deal of water. It contains very little of the electrolytic salts that tend to bind normal soil particles together...
...their own. Germany with the Bomb is a prospect that alarms Western Europe nearly as much as it does Russia and the satellites. What Erhard does want is a greater share in both nuclear planning and in the control over the "hardware" of the tactical weapons on German soil. De Gaulle does not want the Germans to have even that much. "The Germans have lost the war," he reportedly says, "and they must pay for it." This notion overlooks the fact that France did not exactly win the war either...
...fated 1948 campaign. "The American dream," he said then, "is a dream of the prophets of old-the dream of each man living in peace under his own vine and fig tree." It was a dream that Henry Wallace helped fulfill for every American who lives by the soil...