Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those at Minh's Buddhist funeral was the senior U.S. civilian adviser, who paid funeral costs, provided vehicles to take the cortege back to Minh's native village for burial, and paid the family compensation of 100,000 piasters ($250). Meanwhile in Saigon, 280 miles to the southwest, as many as 600 demonstrators showed their sympathy for the slain boy by donning white mourning headbands and burning President Nixon in effigy...
...this book so bad? Actually it's not any worse than the war-story thrillers that I used to read in the grammar school library about soldiers fighting Geronimo and the Apaches in the southwest. The American troops-young, obedient and brave, always ex-Union Army troops, fresh from victory over the rebels at home. Riding out in neat cavalry file with shiny boots and new automatic rifles to face the Indians. The Indians-brave. but crafty and cruel. with old single-bolt rifles. The soldiers always had families and sweethearts at home, the Indians never did; but the Indians...
...women had begun their counterattack by boycotting the Pacific Southwest championship three months ago because it offered a first prize of $12,500 for the men and only $1,500 for the women. Led by Mrs. Billie Jean King, the U.S.'s top woman player, eight of the leading ladies staged their own tournament in Houston. It proved such a success that Virginia Slims cigarettes put up $75,000 to help sponsor a cross-country tour. Since then the "Houston Eight" have more than doubled their ranks-and their fortunes. Responding to the rebellion, the Pacific Coast tournament...
Though the U.S. flag is disappearing from Atlantic liners, it lingers on in the Pacific. Four American ships still cruise from San Francisco and Los Angeles to southwest Pacific islands. Alaska and Mexico, but Matson Navigation Co. is unloading its two passenger ships on another line and going full steam into freight. The Government senses that the era of luxury liners is over: the Merchant Marine Act of 1970 finances the construction of 300 new merchant ships in the next decade, but does not even mention the passenger business...
...schedule for the bulletin report, the official North Vietnamese radio station said the air attack started at 2:30 a. m. Hanoi time and lasted more than an hour, with the American planes bombing targets in an area ranging from the port city of Haiphong to Hoa Binh province southwest of Hanoi. The Vietnamese language broadcast, monitored in Hong Kong, did not give the name and the location of the prisoner of war camp where it said there were American bombing casualties...