Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first flicker of uneasiness was aroused in the defenders of Xieng Kho when a night reconnaissance patrol went out and did not return. Toward dawn the next day, a sentry spotted some shadowy figures and fired warning shots. As he did so, a red flare blossomed in the night, and from three sides mortar shells rained down on the village and its entrenchments. As the troops scrambled to their positions, they were raked by heavy fire from machine guns and 57 mm. recoilless rifles...
...voters last week cast their ballots for a new National Assembly. The unsurprising winner: tough, capable President Ngo Dinh Diem, 58, whose sternly anti-Communist National Revolutionary Movement, aided by disqualification of some antigovernment candidates, captured 78 seats in the 123-man Assembly. Six seats went to the non-Communist Left, and 39 "independents" were elected, but many of them-like the President's strong-minded sister-in-law, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu-are staunch supporters of the government, and practically none oppose Diem's pro-Western alignment...
Though Labor Party leaders doughtily tried to shrug it off, most British pundits agreed that Ike's visit had carried Macmillan to a new crest of popularity, and Macmillan himself pointedly went into a huddle with Tory Party leaders to discuss an early election. At week's end dates as early as Oct. 8 were being widely rumored in London...
...Premier of Quebec, scorned the taking of bids on public works as "disguised hypocrisy," and bestowed stretches of highway to qualified areas (i.e., they voted right) in the fashion of a feudal lord. He set elections for Wednesdays, day of devotion to St. Joseph, his patron saint, and went faithfully to 6 a.m. Mass at the Quebec City Roman Catholic basilica, while his bodyguard, a Protestant, waited impassively in the rear of the church. Neither the man nor his government could have happened anywhere but in Quebec...
...Margareta Hagerty, 30, daughter-in-law of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, went to court in Alexandria. Va., walked out a U.S. citizen. Daughter of a Swedish minister, she arrived in the U.S. in 1951, went to work as a governess in the home of a Swedish U.N. delegate, married Marine Lieut, (now Captain; Roger Carl Hagerty in 1955, is the mother of Jim Hagerty's two grandchildren...