Word: soon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many nations soon incorporated that principle into their military codes. One of the last to do so was France, which wrote a new military code only after its junior officers blindly obeyed rebellious generals in Algeria...
...Although Yankee Clipper capsized as it hit the water, the astronauts quickly righted their craft by inflating three large flotation bags attached to its tip. Lifted aboard the aircraft carrier by helicopter, the crew was hustled into the same mobile quarantine van that housed the men of Apollo 11. Soon afterward, they were cheered by a call from President Nixon, who told the three Navy commanders that he was promoting them to captain. That made the 37-year-old Al Bean the Navy's youngest to attain the rank...
...Suddenly everything started flying," said one of the victims of the hand grenade that shattered El Al's downtown Athens passenger terminal last week. "The ceiling seemed to fall in, and there was broken glass all over the place." Caught soon after the explosion, two young Jordanian terrorists proudly owned up to the attack. "We do not deny our acts, " they boasted. "We are hitting the enemy where we find him." In all, they injured three Americans, one Briton and eleven Greeks-one of whom, a 2½-year-old boy, died after a half-dollar-sized fragment...
Born in Hupeh province to a poor peasant family, Li received at best a patchwork education and in his teens was apprenticed to a carpenter. His chairs and tables regularly collapsed, however, and he was fired. By his early 20s, Li had joined the party and soon won a reputation for unquestioning loyalty to Mao Tse-tung and for his talent at organizing effective guerrilla bands. After the civil war ended in 1949, Li rose steadily in the party's central China hierarchy. In 1954, he was summoned to Peking as Minister of Finance...
...Senate has launched an investigation yet, but what about the U.S. presence in Cambodia? There is one, and it is growing. Since last summer, when Washington and Pnompenh resumed diplomatic relations after a four-year hiatus, the official American community has increased to nine, including two wives, and is soon to be augmented by four additional staffers...