Word: tat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Filipinos still consider the U.S. "a princess pure," neither do they expect Diosdado Macapagal's desires to be laughed at. Nor would they be - for in all of seething Southeast Asia, the Philippine Republic is the only politically stable democracy unthreatened by Communism or coup d'état...
...audience never really believes that the robust Quinn is an aging, frightened, sycophantic shopkeeper, or that Ingrid Bergman could be so cruel. She is more martyr than Medea, and thus the film's climax-appropriately altered -turns its grand vindictive triumph into a puny game of tit-for-tat...
Iraq, said President Abdul Salam Aref, "is a factor for the production of coups d'état." Aref should know: he himself seized power last November, ousting the Baathist regime of Premier Hassan Bakr which had itself over thrown Dictator Kassem last year...
...staging center of Tchepone, which has an airfield. The purpose would be to put Hanoi on notice that the U.S. was ready to do more if necessary. If that didn't work, the next step would be bombings inside North Viet Nam. First would come tit-for-tat reprisals: if the Viet Cong sabotaged an oil dump in the south, there would be immediate destruction of a similar installation in the north. From there, if need be, there would be general punishment of North Viet Nam from the air; one reported plan calls for bombing, after a week...
Bounding triumphantly from the grueling examinations that won him his lyceée's coveted bachot, Charles de Gaulle, 15, man general's oldest and favorite grandchild, reported that as his examination code name he had used "L'eétat, c'est moi." Despite dark suspicions that "certain professors are intimidated by my name," he nevertheless flunked Latin, pulled through on the strength of his French and history, which surprised few of his fellow students, among whom he is already famous for his imitations of Grandpa. "I am a Gaullist," he explains, grandly...