Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Vietnamese troopers last week encountered no resistance on their way to Ben Het. Why did the enemy withdraw? During the height of the attacks, North Vietnamese propagandists boasted that Ben Het represented "a humiliating failure for the U.S. in its plot to de-Americanize the war and use Vietnamese to kill Vietnamese." Having already lost 1,800 men in the battle, the North Vietnamese may have felt that they needed to waste no more lives to make their point...
...millionaire trader, Tshombe emerged on the world stage when the Congo became an independent country. Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's charismatic first Premier, wanted strong central government. Tshombe, speaking for the copper-rich province of Katanga, demanded a loose federation. The disagreement started a civil war that raged for 29 months, required 30,000 United Nations troops to settle, and was notable for rape, pillage and bloody atrocities. Lumumba was murdered-a U.N. commission suspected Tshombe of complicity-and Tshombe was exiled and 'then recalled to become Premier, only to be exiled once more...
...years before World War I, Tanner developed a special technique of applying his paint in thin, linseed-oil glazes. He began employing a gemlike palette heavily laced with blues and aquamarines. Many of the works done in this later style have cracked and flaked. But some few among them-notably the serenely moonlit Abraham's Oak -still show how Tanner could take a simple Biblical tale and use it to inspire a unique poetic vision...
...three top men who were themselves organization assassins. He manages well enough until he meets an attractive divorcee called Sheila (Lee Remick). Before anyone can say Philosophy in the Bedroom, Cunningham and Sheila are under the same bedspread, where they spend most of their time discussing doom, guilt, predestination, war, violence, murder and the population explosion...
...most Americans, depressed and confused by what is already the longest, most complicated war in the nation's history, the words Southeast Asia have come to mean just one thing: Viet Nam. Yet in the long run, the political and economic development of the area's other nations, with their 250 million people, may prove more important to the stability of all Asia-and the world-than the bloody ground where the fighting now rages. Asserting this point, Robert Shaplen, The New Yorker's veteran correspondent in Asia, ventures beyond Viet Nam to invoke the longer perspectives...