Word: teared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stench of cordite and the sour-sweet smell of tear gas?the incense of South Viet Nam's political crisis?was missing in Saigon last week for the first time in more than a month. The frail, elegant hands of the Buddhist bonze who had ignited the trouble gestured?and the mobs went home, the air cleared. The crisis itself had not ended, but its course had been changed and channeled, sometimes subtly, sometimes imperiously, by one of South Viet Nam's most extraordinary men. As a result of the power and discipline he displayed in last week's events...
...COME! The immigrant is an archetypal role in American experience; and now from Dublin, Playwright Brian Friel sends a reminder of the wrench at leaving the other side. As a double exposure of the young Irish hero, Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford do not miss a trick or a tear...
...pockmarked South Viet Nam last week seemed a senseless and dangerous self-indulgence. Night after night, motley mobs-students and street urchins, town toughs and saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Boy Scouts and Communist agitators-surged through the streets of Saigon. In battles with police and Vietnamese troopers, they answered tear gas with stones, staves and homemade spears, occasionally even a hand grenade. In South Viet Nam's capital of discontent, Hué, and in Danang, Dalat, Pleiku, Nha Trang and Ban Me Thuot, the rioters roamed virtually at will, their ranks often swelled by uniformed Vietnamese servicemen. A month...
...American presence in Viet Nam. At first Ky kept hands off so as "not to provide any martyrs" among the demonstrators, but the unrest gauge rose from troublesome to serious to grave. Two weeks ago, feeling its credibility as a government at stake, Saigon broke up a demonstration with tear gas and clubs, made its first arrests. The stage was set for last week's violence...
Playwright Brian Friel sends a reminder of the wrench at leaving the other side. As a double exposure of the young Irish hero, Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford do not miss a trick or a tear in the whole course of the show...