Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese doubt that essentially all this means capitulation to the Communists. Nor does the President of the U.S. doubt it. The Ford Administration was making its own capitulation?to the insurmountable resistance both in Congress and among the public to continued U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. In the wake of Thieu's resignation, the President told 5,000 cheering Tulane students in New Orleans: "Today America can again regain the sense of pride that existed before Viet Nam, but it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished?as far as America is concerned." Contrary to some...
...Marcello Caetano and marked the end of 46 years of fascist rule in Portugal, the prospects for a fire Portugal looked good. At the time, General Antonio de Spinola disbanded the terrorist secret police, and promised the people a free press and free elections within a year. In the wake of a right-wing coup March 11, allegedly led by Spinola, it seemed that the people's hopes that swelled last year were imperiled. For a time, elections were delayed and the High Council of the Revolution refused to allow three parties-two of them on the extreme left...
...sides has changed drastically since the signing of the Paris accords in January 1973. At that time the North Vietnamese had 148,000 combat troops in South Viet Nam; today they have an estimated 237,000. Two years ago ARVN had 250,000 combat troops; today, in the wake of the great retreat, it has only 104,000. Out of 150,000 troops formerly based in Military Regions I and II, no more than 60,000 are left; the rest were killed, wounded, or simply ran away. As a result, the ARVN has only seven remaining divisions, while the North...
...Arab worker and UFW member who was clubbed to death by a Kern county deputy. One day later, Juan De La Cruz, a 60-year-old striker who had been with the union from its beginning, was shot through the heart by a strikebreaker. Pearey follows Juan's wake and funeral, showing the casket draped in a black flag with the red UFW eagle carried down miles of dusty roads past the fields he struggled for. Mourners stretch far down the road, each bearing grim testimony to the stakes involved in the fight over the fields. And after nearly...
...doubtful that UMass will provide any competition for the number one crew in the country, but look for a battle of oars in Harvard's wake, as the weak Bruins may well find the Minutemen inspired by the hoopla of the bicentennial...