Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disillusion. Each unit was made up of men from the same area, and once back in South Viet Nam, they headed for their home regions. Some went to fight alongside or instruct the local Viet Cong, but others had more specialized tasks. Nguyen Thao actually built a complete small-arms factory under the South Viet Nam army's nose...
...seems like a good gamble. In the three months since Brazil's army toppled Leftist President Joao Goulart, the government has pushed through a 30,000-unit low-cost housing program, and is now steering broad agrarian, tax and banking reforms toward a vote in Congress. Businessmen are beginning to regain their confidence in the country, and the cruzeiro, which snapped back from 1,700 to the dollar just before the revolution to 1,300 on the day of Goulart's ouster, has remained steady ever since...
...even more compact scale-that is, on one truck only. The foundation is trying to help the State Department find a way to present American theater from town to town anywhere in the world. Arena stage, dressing rooms, props, generators, lights -everything but the emotion-would roll in one unit...
...houses for private clients in years past. But only lately have mass builders begun to adopt the style. Pacesetter Homes set 169 atria on a tract in San Clemente, Calif., and Builder William J. Levitt-of the Levittown Levitts -includes a version of the house in his 1,450-unit development currently abuilding near Cape Kennedy, Fla. Greatest enthusiast is California's Joseph L. Eichler, who has built some 3,000 houses in 31 development tracts in the last six years, sold every one of them (at anywhere from $23,000 to $55,000 each), sometimes even before construction...
...After a round of "fraternal meetings" with Ulbricht in Moscow last week, the answer came with announcement of a 20-year "friendship pact" between East Germany and the Soviet Union. The document pledged mutual assistance in case of aggression and spoke vaguely of West Berlin as "an independent political unit" but specifically upheld the Potsdam Treaty, which had established the Western presence in Berlin. To avoid any misunderstanding, Moscow had made it clear to Washington that the new treaty did not affect the West's position-and was therefore meaningless...