Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a burst of fire from their automatic weapons. They cut down all but one, an Australian freelance photographer who escaped by playing dead. Cantwell, a native of Sidney, Australia, had worked for Australian and Hong Kong newspapers and the Associated Press before joining TIME as a stringer-correspondent, spoke three Chinese dialects and was an avid student of Asian languages and culture. During the past year, he had covered a wide variety of stories about the Vietnamese war for TIME. He was about to rejoin his wife and three children in Hong Kong when he set forth...
...regard to the Viet Nam War," exulted long-time De Gaulle Critic Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Some French officials saw the parley as an opportunity for le grand Charles to establish himself as an outsize hyphen between East and West and a buffer between Hanoi and the U.S. Others spoke of Paris' long history as a site for crucial talks?perhaps overlooking such notable failures as the 1946 talks with Vietnamese nationalists that led directly to the French-Indochinese war and the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and, in the view of some historians, paved...
...after his announcement, Rockefeller went to Philadelphia to de liver the second of his major position speeches. The first, two weeks earlier, had been on the urban crisis and caused few ripples. Now he spoke about Viet Nam, a subject on which he had been silent for two years. He proposed no radical departures, attempted instead to camp on unexceptionable middle ground. The U.S., he maintained, must seek a settlement "whose aims and guarantees safeguard the freedom and security of all Southeast Asia." The "Americanization of the effort, military and civilian, should be reversed." At the same time, he argued...
...courtroom on the second floor of the post-office overlooking a typical town square with the inevitable white courthouse and statute of a Civil War hero was Presley Franklin, the first Negro to integrate the eleventh grade at Marks' white high school. Slim and small for his age, he spoke quietly describing his school year. "They would call me 'walkin' talkin' tootsie-roll,' 'burrhead', and other things like that. They used to throw crayons and chalk at me during class discussion and say 'we're going to kill that nigger'. Miss Martin, one of my teachers, let them throw...
...meeting after meeting, students spoke of the need to "restructure this university so it is run by the students and faculty...