Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Komer estimates that about 55% of South Viet Nam's population has been brought under the government's wing, a "modest gain" of about 5% in the first eight months of 1966. Accentuating the positive, he notes a rapid increase to 28,539 workers in the key Revolutionary Development Cadre program, describing the 59-man teams sent into the countryside as "a dagger pointed at the Viet Cong's heart" (though an official Vietnamese assessment in preparation tells another story-of faulty recruiting, bad training, improper use of workers and ill-advised psychology). Komer notes proudly that...
Learning that some right-wing officers were scheming to bring Wessin back, Balaguer denounced the plot on television, though carefully absolving Wessin of any complicity. He then appointed Wessin an alternate Dominican delegate to the U.N. with the rank of ambassador, and ordered Wessin's old autonomous outfit at San Isidro airbase to be divided among other units throughout the country. Furthermore, Balaguer ordered a reorganization of the military so that "the barracks can no longer be used as a springboard" for political activities. So far, the military has accepted the President's orders without any visible signs...
...report met with widespread and surprisingly uncritical acceptance. But elsewhere, particularly in Europe, many people never doubted that Kennedy's murder was the product of a conspiracy involving either-there is a remarkably wide choice-the right wing, the left wing, the FBI, the CIA or the Dallas police force. When South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated last week in Capetown, officials hurriedly launched a series of anti-plot explanations to cut off the kind of who-killed-Kennedy rumors that have risen abroad...
After ten years of this, both members of the marriage see the error of their ways. As Lorabelle settles down, Henry takes wing. Together they build a house and a family; together they remain till the end. Yet till the end she remains a romantic and he a cynic. "In all that he did," the narrator concludes, "he could see himself striving toward a condition of love or truth or goodness that did not exist. But he stayed with it because he knew there wasn't anything else...
...wing, the lovebirds catch delightful glimpses of such old film favorites as Wilfred Hyde-White, Grégoire Asian, John Le Mesurier, and Terry-Thomas cast as an Eton-educated sheik whose gap-toothed grin would probably pass a camel. T-T has a number of soppingly silly old-boy lines to deliver, but the silliest is allotted to Villain Lorn. "I'm having a party tomorrow night," tie remarks amiably to a wealthy Muslim. "Do come. And bring your wives...