Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the whole idea of the Resistance was to change the mind of the ruling class. If enough middleclass kids went to jail, all of their parents would be so upset that they would never let the war continue. I'll still bet that when my parents talk to other parents, they defend what I did. It's really hard to call your own kid a "freak...
...Dort, tic, iki, bir!" Thus, with a kind of wild excitement, went the countdown for the Apollo 11 moon landing as heard over Istanbul Radio...
WHEREVER Richard Nixon went in Asia last week, the U.S. moon landing formed an impressive backdrop for his visit. The President was not shy about capitalizing on the feat, even promising bits of moon rock to his hosts. One Far Eastern Foreign Minister, in fact, described Nixon's approach on the Asian tour as "Apollo diplomacy." Whether that was fair or not, Nixon certainly moved with space-age speed, visiting seven countries in as many days. His whirlwind schedule and the resulting mood of if-it's-Tuesday-this-must-be-Djakarta were not very conducive to thoughtful...
While President Nixon was spreading the gospel of disengagement in Southeast Asia, Secretary of State William Rogers was deep in talks with the Japanese. Those discussions turned out to be not only diplomatically difficult but physically dangerous. A Japanese anarchist, Shigeji Hamaoka, 21, went at Rogers with a dull paint scraper and missed. Hamaoka's apparent motive: to protest the supposed injustice that Rogers was in Tokyo to discuss-continued U.S. occupation of Okinawa. The island was captured in 1945, and has since become the largest U.S. military base off the Asian mainland...
...little island of Chappaquiddick last week, tourists gawked at the scene, and souvenir hunters chipped pieces of wood away from Dike Bridge. For a time the car that Senator Edward Kennedy had driven off the bridge the night of July 18-19 was left unprotected, and some people went so far as to take bits of shattered glass and strips of chrome from it. Those curious about what happened that night meanwhile continued to chip away at Kennedy's patchy story of the accident that took the life of Mary Jo Kopechne...