Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week at government positions north of the royal capital of Luangprabang, having taken the strategic valley of Nam Bac in January. In central Laos, two battalions of mixed North Vietnamese and local Communist Pathet Lao forces were thrown back just outside Thakhek on the border of northeast Thailand-a threat so close to home that Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman warned Hanoi that the Thais might have to take direct action to aid Laos. Worst of all is the situation in southern Laos, where North Vietnamese forces have cut road links, launched mortar attacks and surrounded the provincial towns...
...word keeps Berlin alive: access. Without the 13 channels through which planes, trains, autos and barges move through East German territory, West Berlin could not survive. Any threat to that access, however small, is a threat to Berlin's life. Last week, after three years in which its lifeline went largely unchallenged, West Berlin was once more threatened by an attempt to limit its contact with the West. East Germany announced that it would not allow members of West Germany's rightist National Democratic Party, or other "neo-Nazis," to travel through East Germany to Berlin...
...threat seemed limited, consider ing that the N.D.P. has only 28,000 members out of Germany's 60 million people and that the Western Allies have little love for the party. Still, it was a breach that could be widened-and who could tell how broad East Germany's definition of a neo-Nazi could grow? The East Germans apparently have the N.D.P. list of members in Berlin and West Germany and insist that they will not let them pass border checkpoints. The U.S., France and Britain immediately declared that, under Allied agreements, everyone has the right...
...threat would not be so dire if he were charming just any old house wives. But according to the television flackery, they are "today's younger, more sophisticated homemakers," those "recently deposed go-go people," those Green Berets of the broom brigade...
...threat that the hotel employees see to the three Paris landmarks comes from the sale by their present owner, Madame Francois Dupré, to a British chain: Airport Catering Service, a joint venture of British European Airways and Hostelry Magnate Charles Forte. Winning out over Pan American's Intercontinental hotel chain and the Grand Metropolitan hotel group of Britain with a bid of about $25 million, A.C.S. carried off three jewels worthy of crowning anyone's hotel empire...