Word: tho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seven-Part Plan. The new approach came from Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the austerely handsome ex-schoolteacher who represents the Communist Viet Cong at the long-deadlocked peace talks in Paris. By no coincidence, the plan was put on the table only a week after Le Due Tho-Hanoi's chief envoy to the talks-returned to Paris following a 14-month absence. As the key point in a seven-part plan, Madame Binh declared that if the U.S. agreed to withdraw all its forces from Viet Nam by the end of this year, the Communists would agree...
...policymakers. Recently, a more or less formal poll was taken among the South Vietnamese to find out what, in their view, the U.S. has been up to. The answers, gathered by U.S.-trained poll takers in five areas from Qui Nhon on the central coast to Can Tho in the Mekong Delta, range from balanced to bizarre...
What good has the U.S. done for Viet Nam? Almost three-fourths of those questioned in Can Tho cited the fight against Communism and the roads and bridges that the U.S. has built. But 12% could think of nothing specific, and 14% insisted that the U.S. has done no good at all. When the same group was asked what were the worst things Americans had done, 78% cited the corruption of Vietnamese youth, women, customs and traditions, the use of Vietnamese officials as "henchmen," the undermining of the country's politics and economy, and the disregard of its national...
...already shrinking. Reluctantly, the Trib shot down the sherif and later sank the frater. "Readers," sighs Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, "wondered if Tribune editors knew how to spell." The latest style book retains only a few relics of the Bennett era, most of them now widely accepted: tho, thru, analog. Prime reason for the return to standard spelling is to bring Trib style closer to that of wire services, most other papers, and current teaching in the U.S. journalism schools...
...Seven carloads of helmeted national police last week pulled up to a clingy hantytown which sprawled beside Saigon's Phu Tho race track. Then, in a scene reminiscent of General Douglas MacArthur's dispersing the Washington Jonus Marchers in 1932, the riot police chased the residents-disabled war veterans and their families-out of their hacks. As the veterans, many missing arms and legs, scampered out, the police used crowbars to smash the flimsy shelters. While women and children prevailed, one despairing veteran slashed tis wrists. Squatters who resisted were beaten with rifle butts...