Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...either the CIA or the White House had somehow engineered the coup. At a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council called by Cuba to protest attacks by Chilean troops on its embassy in Santiago during the coup, Cuban Ambassador Ricardo Alarcón y Quesada charged: "The trail of blood spilled in Chile leads directly to the dark dens of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon...
...estimated to number 60,000. American military advisers see no reason why the North Vietnamese should not comply. As one U.S. military expert puts it, "they can be back in Laos in 48 hours." Moreover, the North Vietnamese are no longer wholly dependent on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos as a supply route to South Viet Nam: Highway 14 across the Communist-controlled DMZ has been reopened...
...moustache, and his burly build reminds one of his days as a stone cutter--he made grave stones, like little Oskar in The Tin Drum--and as a sculptor, before he began to write. He deliberately rolls a cigarette while answering questions, and his time on the campaign trail for Brandt's socialists has taught him not exactly to dodge difficult questions but to slip almost unnoticeable away from them--like maybe a snail...
...press cards and documents belonging to the journalist; the office safe had been opened and $2,000 was missing. Begon's name was on the passenger list of a morning flight to Palermo, Sicily-a Mafia center -and his car was found parked at the airport. There the trail stopped. But Italian police soon grew suspicious. Although Begon had once contributed to an ABC radio broadcast on the Mafia, ABC Mediterranean Bureau Chief Barrie Dunsmore said that "Jack had no assignment having to do with the Mafia or Palermo." The broken glasses turned out to have dated from...
...world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern War? Why did did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...