Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting for applicants who couldn't attend the 2 p. m. meeting of the Eliot House course. A few other people are there. On the blackboard in the room, a chalked sign reads: "Hum 96g is playing hard to get. Report to Harvard 4A for further instructions." We troop to Harvard Hall, where we find there is no 4A. After several desperate minutes, we return to Sever and find the meeting in progress. I begin to realize the nature of the competition...
...Settlement in Viet Nam and Cyrus Vance, former Deputy Secretary of Defense and later one of Lyndon Johnson's negotiators in Paris. Vance has been pressing his suggestions with Administration officials in private and is now fighting for them publicly. He believes that U.S. willingness to pledge total troop withdrawal by an early date might be the necessary inducement for Communist agreement to a ceasefire. Under his scenario, an international force of perhaps 3,000 men, manning 300 monitoring posts, would supervise the ceasefire. As Vance sees it, there are a number of built-in advantages to his proposal...
...some sort of cease fire proposal, coupled with what has remained consistent U.S. policy: international supervision of any truce, free elections, and no imposition of a coalition government through negotiation against the wishes of Saigon. There is speculation that Nixon may announce his plan-perhaps linking it with new troop withdrawals-in an address to the nation this month. It would be logical for him to time the announcement for maximum effect on the congressional elections. But White House aides insist that if Hanoi expects changes in basic Administration policy for domestic reasons, it is mistaken. Whatever the Hanoi regime...
...Nile, four Soviet-built helicopters landed beside a palace on Gezira Island, the original headquarters of Nasser's Revolutionary Command Council. From the lead copter, a flag-draped coffin was unloaded and strapped to a gun carriage pulled by six black horses. A funeral cortege formed, with a troop of lance-bearing cavalrymen leading the way. Six military bands, the morning sun glinting richly off their brass, struck up the melancholy strains of Chopin's Funeral March. Twenty-seven visiting chiefs of state, eleven Prime Ministers and 22 other foreign delegates assembled behind the gun carriage. The first rounds...
...brown leather notebook, Che kept track of the conduct and efficiency of his chief lieutenants. At first the notations were sprinkled with encouraging evaluations. "Very good," wrote Che of one of his troop leaders, the former director of the Cuban special warfare center whose code name was Joaquín. But three months later, Che noted that Joaquin was "decaying physically and morally," and with his physician's eye, he diagnosed lymphangitis (inflammation of the lymph vessels). Of Tuma, a Caban who was Guevara's executive officer, Che noted that after six months in Bolivia, he suffered...