Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflict from the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek's armies in Manchuria to the fall of Canton in 1949. Correspondent Bing W. Wong grew up on a small island off the coast of China's Fukien province, attended Amoy University and in 1950, as Communist control spread, left for Hong Kong, where he became one of the colony's most respected China analysts. When Radio Peking flashed an announcement of the completed People's Congress, both English and Chinese TV camera crews went to Wong's apartment to get his assessment. David Aikman, a Ph.D...
Grave Questions. Unquestionably, rationing would generate wide spread inequities. Lower-income motorists would be penalized because they tend to drive inefficient old cars that get poor gasoline mileage. Residents of rural and suburban areas would suffer more than city dwellers, because they are not served by adequate mass transit systems. A network of local rationing boards would probably be created to deal with hardship claims. But there would be much bureaucratic adjudication of minute details of Americans' private and business lives. By FEA'S estimate, rationing would require the creation of a massive bureaucracy of as many...
...counterguerrilla maneuver by two helicopters and 20 air-assault specialists. For the purposes of the drill, the Army gave Dusty Anderson's farm a special designation "Patrolandia." An error in Soldiers, an Army magazine, changed the a to e, and thus an inflammatory rumor was born - and spread...
...attack was only one incident in a raging demonstration that spread to Athens and was directed at British as well as American facilities. In the Greek capital, Cypriot students climbed the walls of the British embassy compound and tossed fire bombs that burned automobiles and scorched the embassy. On Cyprus, meanwhile, one youth was accidentally killed by a military vehicle during a Greek Cypriot demonstration against the British at the entrance to the Akrotiri base area on the southern coast. The protests were aroused by a decision to move 10,000 Turkish refugees out of the British bases where most...
...four years he worked in the Oklahoma Indian community, a loosely organized group of about 23,000 spread over ten counties in the southeastern part of the state, which has no Indian reservations. Then, last January, he returned to Harvard, having acquired a wife, Emma, a hyperactive four-year-old daughter, Angie, and a specific goal--law school...