Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum get the most out of a script full of raudous frontier humor in this fist-come, fist-served western...
...device for profiteers. A pacification official in Gia Dinh province, for example, was caught collecting the pay for a 59-man Revolutionary Development cadre that in fact had 42 members. Though many sidewalk stalls of black-marketeers have been closed down, Saigon still has a thriving trade in illicit Western luxury goods pilfered or bought from the huge stocks brought in by the U.S. Veterans of the Korean War are reminded of the vast theft-ridden port of Pusan. "The Koreans were really much better at this than the Vietnamese," says...
...crusading press to distant villages, and the ire of distant villages to bear on the people in power. Increased contacts with the rest of the world should help to develop greater understanding of the techniques of government and business competition; and this, in turn, would encourage the confidence of Western leaders and international agencies, tired of seeing their aid money siphoned off into illicit channels...
...King Hussein which was intercepted by Israeli Intelligence, Nasser suggested that the Arab nations tell their people that they had lost the war because Britain and the U.S. had given Israel air support. Nothing could have been further from the truth; the Israelis had been summarily dropped by their Western allies when the war threatened to escalate. If the Arabs were to look for an excuse they would have to find it elsewhere...
...their manpower was mobilized. But if the war was short it was nonetheless more vicious than the Sinai campaign of 1956. The few roads which cross the Sinai desert are lined with burnt-out trucks and tanks, while the Mitla Pass (a strategic pass through the mountains of Western Sinai near the Suez Canal) appears to be an enormous junk-heap of scrap metal. Although some of the damage to the seven Egyptian divisions stationed in the Sinai came from three Israeli armer divisions, most of it was the work of the superb Israeli Air Force which dominated the skies...