Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pointedly noted that the war in Viet Nam posed no threat to "the vital interests of the Soviet Union" and "does not have to stop us from finding new ways of dealing with one another." The President spoke barely a week after North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, according to diplomats, flew to the Black Sea, after a two-day layover in Peking, to meet vacationing Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The presence of the Hanoi leaders was never formally acknowledged by the Russians, and just what happened behind...
...high school junior, began running a bulldozer on the site of the district's first public high school, which the students are building. Mai Viet Phuong, 20, organized hog co-operatives among the district's farmers. Standing in red clay soil that squished over his sandals, Luong Van Tron, 20, a law student, recalled how his pals kidded him at first about stooping to such "cheap" labor; now eight of them have joined...
...troubles began in 1652, when three small ships under the command of Jan van Riebeeck sailed into Table Bay. On board were 200 men, and although some of them were accompanied by their wives and children, they had not come as colonists. Their sole mission was to set up a refreshment station to supply fresh meat, water and vegetables to the spice ships of the Dutch East India Company on their long voyages between Amsterdam and the Far East...
Since apartheid had not yet been invented, they intermingled freely with the primitive Hottentots and Bushmen who were the only native inhabitants of the Cape. "The Colored race started nine months after Jan van Riebeeck landed," says Colored Educator Dr. Richard van der Ross...
Pianist Dichter-who was born in Shanghai midway in his parents' flight from Poland in 1945-also turned on Tanglewood's audiences. He played the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, a risky selection for any young pianist ever since Van Cliburn's powerful, sweeping version of it carried him to victory in the 1958 Moscow competition. But Dichter made the concerto his own, giving it unusual clarity and lightness...