Word: vo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ones issued. Who will get the new cards? The ultraconservatives argue that the party should expel anyone who supported Dubček. That, of course, would reduce the party to a skeleton. Echoing Huáak, the party paper Rudé Právo declared last week that there should be a distinction "between those who were misled and those who did the misleading." Similarly, Radio Prague promised that the screening process would be "neither a police raid nor a penal expedition nor a general revenge." Yet no one can be too certain. The screening committee includes Alois Indra...
Although the remainder of Harvard's hockey schedule is, or at least should be easy, the Crimson will have to hear in mind ?vo valuable points garnered during its current three-game losing streak if it expects to complete the season as successfully as it will have...
...indication that Hanoi is thinking more than ever of a protracted struggle rather than a quick victory came recently from Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero of the victory over the French at Dienbienphu. Writing in two North Vietnamese political journals, Giap offered no hope for the swift, decisive victory he had promised in his 1961 book, People's War, People's Army. "Our people will certainly win," he wrote, but he cautioned that "we must have time." North Viet Nam, he said, was fighting under severe disadvantages and would have to settle for a strategy of "fighting...
...late October, when the Communist troops began to mass around Bu Prang and Due Lap, American commanders warned Colonel Vo Van Canh, the commander of the 23rd division, that they would give him air and artillery support, but that he would have to handle the ground fighting himself. Under personal pressure from President Nguyen Van Thieu to seize the initiative, Canh ordered the 23rd to ferret out the North Vietnamese before they could mount an attack. In a series of daily skirmishes, Colonel Canh's troopers swept the wooded ridge lines of the Central Highlands, preventing the enemy from...