Word: upi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureau largely limited itself to monitoring NLF broadcasts (which, Le Monde reported, "everyone" in South Vietnam was listening to,) Whatever the reason, there was hardly any information about the new PRG. There was one NLF photograph of people thronging Da Nang's apparently newly peaceful shopping district, and one UPI dispatch indicating that NLF occupiers were releasing their comrades in local jails. And that was about all Millions of Americans read the exciting UPI story about the last desperate ride out of Da Nang, but no one in this country knew anything about what happened in the city after...
...last month, these men have been getting up every morning and boarding DC-8 cargo transport lets bound for Phnom Penh. The planes flying south from Thailand carry nearly 600 tons of ammunition a day to loyalist forces in Cambodian capital. Or so it seems. Early this week the UPI reported that on Feb. 27 Lon Nol ordered distribution of all rise rations to be restricted to government soldiers...
...hustle and talent. The son of a salesman, he grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Roseburg, Ore., and was briefly married in 1967. After quitting Portland State University to take pictures for the Oregon Journal, he went on, at the age of 20, to United Press International. UPI sent him to Saigon in 1971, and the next year, his photos showing the desolation of war won him a Pulitzer Prize...
Paterno lost 13 starters from his 11-0 team of 1973, but still managed to find enough talent to fill almost half of the All-East team. Baylor coach Grant Teaff--named UPI Coach of the Year last week--came two years ago to a school that had won 14 games in seven years, and has clearly produced a miracle for the Baptists, who enter the tilt with an 8-3 record...
...take place?" His answer is the preferred thing was a democratic election in '76 that would replace Allende. But a political decision was made not to tell Allende what we knew. Now, there would be no political decision if what we knew was what we'd read from UPI. To fail to give that information is to take, I would say, total share in the responsibility for what comes after as well as the responsibility for the earlier destabilization program. And indeed Colby made very clear that day that we preferred the current regime to the past regime, and that...