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Word: tien (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Appearing before the Indonesian Journalists' Association, General Suharto denied press reports linking his wife Ibu Tien (whom some foreign papers have unkindly dubbed "Ibu Ten Percent") to the ownership of four companies. One of those firms, the largest Toyota dealership in Jakarta, had been gutted by flames during the rioting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Retaliation and Reform | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...main, therapy and self-knowledge come from physical labor. Chao says that he is bone-tired after a day weeding or planting rice, but he has found a new meaning to work. Adds Wang Tien-san, 44, head of the school's revolutionary committee: "By doing physical labor, we maintain the true feeling of the laboring people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Down on the Farm with Marx and Mao | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

Some of the memoranda that Ellsberg wrote for American policy makers while he was stationed in Vietnam are very remarkable when compared to the sort of documents that make up the bulk of the Pentagon Papers. "Visit to an Insecure Province" and "The Day Loc Tien Was Pacified" both abandon the sad reliance on quantitative indices of progress (such as kill ratios) in favor of reporting impressions and representative conversations...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Going Public in America | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...another incident, a black guard was shot to death when a black sailor went on a wild shooting spree at Camp Tien Sha near Danang. That episode followed rioting along China Beach by black Marines and sailors brandishing M-16 rifles...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Bringing the War Home . . . (II) | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

Commanders with more foresight have encouraged militants to participate in the meetings along with white enlisted and officer personnel. Black Panther sympathizer Washington sat on one such group at Tien Sha, and Cpl. Joseph Harris of Los Angeles, a Karenga backer, twice arrested during the Watts riot, participated in one at the Marine base in Chu Lai. Both Washington and Harris were given jobs to keep whites and blacks in line at their enlisted men's clubs. When Harris suggested commemorating the anniversary of King's death, the Marine command supplied food and soft drinks for 300 black soldiers...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Bringing the War Home . . . (II) | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

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