Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With assistance from Thai officials anxious to bring world attention to the tragedy on their border, Clark found his way to the rude camps where Cambodian refugees have huddled. He watched as the tattered forces of the once mighty Khmer Rouge staggered across the border. Together with TIME Stringer John Burgess, he managed to cross into Cambodia itself...
...colossal struggle is now under way for control of the Democratic Party. Carter and his troops regarded their victory in 1976 as the first step toward moving the party to a more centrist position. Carter's defeat of Alabama's George Wallace, they felt, saved the party from moving too far right. And their battle with Ted Kennedy is already seen from the White House as saving the party from New Deal liberalism. All over the country. Democrats are being pressured to pick sides...
...campaign will soon be a pitched battle among the candidates. But among the people who do the voting, the candidates will be viewed through a prism of what they seem to offer in the way of help on energy and inflation and America's place in the world. More than in any recent election, the country will be looking at the candidates skeptically, doubting their promises, almost cynical about their abilities to alter fundamentally the nation's course. Says Maine's Senator Edmund S. Muskie, himself a failed presidential candidate in 1972: "People no longer believe...
...aids and landing equipment. Moreover, a standard map of the airport distributed to pilots carries this warning: "CAUTION: Street lights approximately one mile north of ... Runway 23-L may be mistaken for runway lights in conditions of low visibility." Gilbert was reading a copy of the map on the way down. And, at the time of the crash, both runways were in fact blanketed by ground...
...long, unhappy involvement of the U.S. in Indochina. Beyond that there is the frustration of knowing that the catastrophe of Cambodia could be averted; that the food, the medical supplies and the will to help do exist. Only the cruel, baffling politics of Southeast Asia stand in the way...