Word: stream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steady Stream. The students' victory was, in a way, Pyrrhic. USAID had been the largest single employer in the entire country after the Vientiane government itself, and it was still handing out $32 million in economic aid this year (the equivalent of $10 per Laotian). Pathet Lao representatives said they wanted U.S. aid to continue without any supervision, but that seems unlikely. As of last week, the steady stream of departing Americans had reduced the U.S. presence in Laos from more than 1,000 a month ago to about...
...word dependents was defined more and more loosely as the airlift progressed?partly because, as one American businessman put it, the Vietnamese extended family is "like a chain letter," stretching to include a virtually endless stream of cousins, nephews, grandmothers and in-laws. One American departed from Tan Son Nhut with 39 "dependents." A U.S. businessman recognized a couple of prostitutes he had seen at the Palace Hotel bar in Saigon and discovered that they were leaving under a new "no-marriage clause"?which meant, in effect, that in the crisis, a departing American can take his girl friend...
...Khmer Rouge pushed forward, setting fire to houses and refugee camps, thousands of new refugees preceded them. The endless stream, including government soldiers who had shed their uniforms and insurgents who were attempting to infiltrate Phnom-Penh, pressed toward the capital on foot, in oxcarts and by motorbike...
...letter was first released two weeks ago. It caused consternation among San Diego priests, and Maher's aides explained that Catholics could belong to NOW-if they opposed its pro-abortion view. Upon his return Maher endorsed that shift at a testy press conference. But buoyed by a stream of favorable phone calls, telegrams and letters, he justified his condemnation of NOW by name. He also insisted that support of a woman's freedom of choice on abortion-which is NOW's policy-is as bad as promoting abortion as such. "You have these two creeds...
Rusher did not try to thwart Shockley's incessant stream of statements about heredity determining 80 per cent of our intelligence. He skirted Shockley's assumption that the "agony of the American Negro" could be related to his genetic properties, an assumption that Shockley claims could be wrong in only one out of 20,000 cases...