Word: underway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forests and surrounded the village. Grenades went flying into the bar, and machine guns opened up on the Portuguese as they spilled out of the crumbling building; 113 soldiers were killed. The guerillas disappeared into the jungle with their first major victory. A new African revolution was underway...
...name and capabilities: the Unimog. This ungainly, versatile product is one of Daimler's biggest sellers; it can be used to cut roses, bore shafts, or climb 70° slopes, is the transportation for the first motorized west-to-east expedition across the wide part of Africa, now underway. To sell its buses, which range from a ten-passenger miniature to a 180-passenger monster, Daimler has developed a "people-to-people" campaign aimed at developing nations. It has sold 1,350 buses to Teheran for its public-transportation system, wishes that it could do as well...
...want a canal, then negotiate a series of treaties with them that will permit the U.S. to make a thorough study of the possibilities. The test borings and surveys would take about four years. Once a route is decided upon and a final treaty written, construction will get underway. If possible, the U.S. would like to use nuclear explosives to dig the trench. Nukes are faster than dynamite, run one-tenth the cost, and would hold the price for the Colombia canal to $1.2 billion, the Nicaragua-Costa Rica canal to $1.24 billion, or the southern Panama route...
Meanwhile, a virtually complete general strike at the University was underway outside. With the campus virtually paralyzed, an ad hoc assembly of nearly 900 faculty members sent a telegram to Gov. Brown protesting the use of police on campus
...withheld communication to you until the Combined Charities Drive was well underway so that this letter would not be construed as interfering in student processes at Harvard...