Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laos, the major staging area for Communist forces moving into South Viet Nam, at least 2,500 North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops have surrounded the southern provincial capital, Saravane. The city is important because it sits astride Route 23, a main feeder to the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and commands the whole southern region. Last week an outnumbered royalist force of 1,000 managed to turn back attacks on two outposts defending it, but lost a third. "Some say the fighting in Laos is a forgotten war," said Brigadier General Oudone Sananikone, the Royal Army chief of staff...
...cold campaign trail and into a warm New York reception stepped dissident Democratic candidate Senator Eugene McCarthy, 51. The Minnesotan, who had spent the week slogging through wintry New Hampshire, found a more congenial welcome at the Manhattan town house of Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper. About 200 friendly writers, artists and jet-setters crowded around to hear him proclaim that "it is necessary now to admit to a kind of complete failure in Viet Nam." Poet Robert Lowell responded on the spot by announcing that he has formed a brand-new National Committee of Arts and Letters for McCarthy...
...Celtics Trail...
...built up as much as a twelve-point lead in the first half, but the Crimson--mainly on some good outside shots by Gallagher and Jeff Grate--battled back to trail by only one, 42-41, at the half...
...next year "on a trial basis" (although girls under 21 will need parental permission). If every senior at Radcliffe chooses to move out, this will cost Radcliffe a great deal of money. Such an exodus is not expected, however, and it if occurs, Radcliffe can end its trail after one disastrous year...