Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ninth inning single by Mike Lynch driving in Tommy Joyce propelled Harvard to a 6-5 victory over Boston College yesterday afternoon of Soldier's Field...
...with reporting whose bias verged on the ridiculous. To Time magazine, the Saigon government's abandonment of half its country was "a gritty gamble," a "historic rearrangement of the Vietnamese political map" to be celebrated with an in-depth look at the government's head: "As both soldier and politician, Nguyen Van Thieu has fought the Communist menace from the North, and it remains his abiding passion today." Similarly, U.S. News and World Report reassured its readers--in suitably muted tones--that "a long, costly investment of American lives and treasure" was not "about to go down the drain...
...baseball team will go for its first northern victory tomorrow, when it faces Boston College at Soldier's Field...
...current crisis has hit South Viet Nam during the President's tenth year in power. The son of a small landowner, Thieu, now 52, became a career soldier who fought for the French against the Communists in 1947-54 and played an important role in the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Born a Buddhist, he converted to Roman Catholicism at the time of his marriage to Mai Anh, a doctor's daughter, in 1951. Because he was regarded as a moderate who could ease the differences between militant Catholic and Buddhist factions, Thieu in June...
...both soldier and politician, Nguyen Van Thieu has fought the Communist menace from the North, and it remains his abiding passion today. "We must be as patient as the Communists are," he mused last January. "My son, my grandson, my great-grandson must be patient." As for himself, Thieu added: "I will never desert. I may be overthrown, but I will never desert...