Word: south
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time, the MBTA is trying to relocate the so-called "car barns" on a site in the Penn Central yards in South Boston. In preliminary talks with the Penn Central, MBTA officials have proposed trading other land the MBTA owns in the area for the 12-acre site where they want to put the car barns...
Just who would be assigned to make the initial contacts with the N.L.F. remained to be seen. Palace sources said that the Vice President and chief South Vietnamese negotiator at the Paris conference, Nguyen Cao Ky, would not take part in the meetings until a lower-level delegate had made the first soundings. If these turned out to be fruitful, Ky would take over. The agenda? Ky's advisers said he was planning to discuss the gamut of problems, from the war itself to the issues of withdrawal and a ceasefire. Any reports that some concrete concessions were...
...peace platform and is now in jail, reminded the world that Dzu was sentenced to five years at hard labor last year for suggesting direct talks with the N.L.F. "Thieu should get ten years," said a Saigon politician. A leader of the North Vietnamese Catholic refugees who came South after the 1954 armistice warned that "if this direct talk with the N.L.F. leads to recognition of the N.L.F., or acceptance of a coalition, or abolition of this regime, we will fight against...
...outgunned, outmanned Biafrans have retreated to advantageously familiar home ground, and receive French arms by air. On their northeastern front, the Nigerians are largely in control. In the southeast, the Biafrans have 3,000 Nigerian soldiers encircled at Owerri but lack strength to wipe out the pocket and push south toward the oil town of Port Harcourt. Last week, in an offensive obviously timed for Wilson's visit, Nigerians launched a general attack in the north that carried them closer to Biafra's lone airstrip at Uli. Unless it is totally successful and quickly ends...
...prizes ranged backward to an Egyptian diadem and forward to an Art Nouveau silver clip. But his heart was closest to the Renaissance and the lovingly fashioned objects it produced. A brilliantly enameled South German panel, dated circa 1530, that vividly portrays Christ being mocked on the road to Calvary, was either part of a pax, to be used by priests during the Mass, or else decorated a reliquary in a church or a monastery...