Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...southbound NVA infantryman, customarily headed for an organized North Vietnamese unit but sometimes also for duty as a replacement in decimated Viet Cong ranks, is drilled night and day in the patriotic mission he has been given. "My heart is filled with joy and with an intense love for our kinsmen," one NVA wrote in his diary upon crossing the DMZ into South Viet Nam. The aim of such saturation indoctrination is to try to ensure that NVA recruits are "politically reliable...
Each of the past two City Managers solved this problem in his own way. Most observers considered Crane and Curry as one political unit. DeGuglielmo--a former councillor--made most of the major decisions of his administration; his council supporters merely ratified them. What the Council-Manager relationship will be under the next administration is still an open question...
...neurosurgeon phoned Palo Alto, and White soon got a call from Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr., pioneering head of Stanford's cardiovascular unit, a fellow resident with Cape Town's Dr. Barnard at the University of Minnesota and the developer of the heart-transplant technique first used by Barnard. Shumway asked about a possible transplant. White talked it over with his children, Judith, 18, and Richard, 12. He also consulted Virginia's mother. They all said...
...than most of the other towns. It prides itself as an important center for cocoa, coffee, and bananas. MG trucks load up in the surrounding forest with giant teak and mahogany logs for the export market. The town is the administrative seat for the surrounding sous-prefeture--a government unit including about 65,000 people. There are four sizable schools, bureaucratic offices, chain stores, a post office...
That seems a hopeless place to start, with such disorganization. It is hard for a visitor to try to resolve any pattern in daily life, any sign that people care about the country, or the government, or any kind of unit bigger than a family. Adzope has the accouterments of civilization, but that often appears very irrelevant. It has had enough French education to be able to go through the motions, but occasionally something happens to show how thin the veneer really...