Word: tenseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saigon, meanwhile, continued its frantic preparations to deal with the uncertain dynamics of peace. By week's end the massive, eleventh-hour infusion of new U.S. military hardware-59 tanks, 100 personnel carriers, 32 heavy-transport planes, 210 fighter-bombers and 280 helicopters-was virtually complete. On the political...
Perhaps the most striking feature of the campaign was the emergence of Wählerinitiativen (literally voter initiatives), tied to no specific issues and outside the regular party framework. Breaking with an old tradition of leaving politics to the politicians, tens of thousands of voters devoted their time and money...
> Nixon would try to trim federal non-military spending; McGovern would raise it by tens of billions yearly.
Uganda celebrated the tenth anniversary of its independence from Britain last week. It was hardly an occasion for rejoicing. Under its unpredictable military ruler, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada, the country has drifted closer and closer to chaos. It was an especially bitter holiday for Uganda's 10...
The size of SDS at Harvard has dwindled from hundreds to tens since the national organization split at the SRIMONIOUS 1969 Chicago convention.