Word: visee
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...time being, at least−the volcanic fury had spent itself, and white officialdom slowly relaxed its tight vise on the area. By week's end only 1,000 National Guardsmen remained of the 14,000 who had been rushed in at the riots' peak...
...challenge is bound to come, for Mozambique ranks just behind South Africa and Portuguese Angola on the list of "public enemies" drawn up by the Liberation Committee of the Organization of African Unity. With its upper half locked in the vise of militant black Africa, and the newly independent nation of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) jutting like an assegai into its heart, Mozambique is in a precarious position. Larger in area than Texas, the torrid, subequatorial nation is run by 163,000 whites and Asians who are outnumbered 40 to 1 by blacks. Yet Portugal's Dictator Antonio Salazar...
...ironic effects of the MFDP's crusade has been to squeeze President Johnson in a tight political vise...
...Melvin Walker, 43, an unemployed Manhattan maintenance man, started to follow his wife into a subway car during the afternoon rush hour. The doors slammed shut-gripping his right arm between them like a vise. The train began to move. Inside the car, Walker's wife screamed. Walker tugged desperately to free himself. As the train picked up speed, he walked, trotted, then sprinted to keep up. Stumbling, sliding, frantically pulling to free his arm, Walker was dragged to the end of the platform and slammed into a metal rail. As the train entered the tunnel, he was battered...
...Brothers Four. The U.S. is deeply committed to hold South Viet Nam against the Chinese-backed Viet Cong guerrillas, because?according to the old "falling domino theory"?Laos and Cambodia would be outflanked, Thailand caught in a vise, and the Malay Peninsula severely threatened if South Viet Nam were to fall. The U.S. is pouring $1,000,000 a day into the country and has sent 14,000 tough, savvy military "advisers" to sharpen the government's war effort against the Red guerrillas. Amid the frustrating military ups and downs, the overriding questions...