Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shadowy war between Laotian government forces and Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas, China has so far stayed clear of the actual fighting. Peking, however, has launched a different sort of invasion against its diminutive neighbor to the south-one that may prove to be every bit as troublesome. Last year some 3,000 Chinese road builders moved across the border of China's Yunnan province into northern Laos. By the time the monsoon rains began last spring, the Chinese had pushed a gravel-topped all-weather road 55 miles south as far as Muong Sai, a town on an important...
...when he told a group of film makers: "The world might be far better off if it were left to the artists instead of to the politicians." Those film makers had been making The Battle of Neretva, all about one of Tito's greatest triumphs in his guerrilla war with the Nazis. Produced with the President's personal advice and encouragement, the spectacle cost millions and runs for more than four hours. Last week Tito threw a party to celebrate the premiere, and his guest list included many of the international "cast of thousands"-Orson Welles, Yul Brynner...
...failure in school, tugging remorselessly at his conscience, drove him to the Seattle public library. For hours on end, unable to fathom the printed mysteries of its stacks, he pored over the illustrations. In a way that he still does not understand, pictures of airplanes and weapons of war fascinated him. And his thoughts slowly turned to the other culture of modern society where men gather in the strong solidarity of uniforms, guns and combat. In May 1967, just 17, Raff signed up for a four-year hitch in the Marines...
Almost immediately he launched a private war of his own. Cast in with veterans who sang the praises of pot and the hippie life, Raff voiced his objections to these values. When the other Marines responded by jeering at his English and his ancestry, Raff chose one of them and savagely attacked...
...General Manager Wes Gallagher, who concedes that A.P. was "derelict" in not following up the story itself, the news service did not receive "a single call from an individual paper or from broadcasters" requesting additional information. And so one of the biggest stories of the Viet Nam War -the massacre at My Lai-remained dormant for another two months...