Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negative Force. With the election of Franklin Roosevelt, it was thrown into the minority position. The majority party sets its sights on a national problem. The liberal and theoretical wing of that party proposes a solution. The other wing of the party opposes it. The majority party then goes into its customary deadlock, unable to raise enough votes to pass its own program...
Strange Birds. The flares and gunfire were the work of two right-wing Laotian generals whose aim was the overthrow of the ramshackle coalition government headed by Neutralist Prince Souvanna Phouma. Jeep loads of paratroopers under the command of General Siho Lamphouthacoul, 28, chief of the military security police, set up roadblocks all over the capital and arrested every neutralist in sight-including Premier Souvanna...
...matter how shaky. In from Saigon jetted William Bundy, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, to join Ambassador Leonard Unger in protesting against the coup. Some people, notably neighboring Thailand's strongly anti-Communist government, were delighted by the prospect of a right-wing regime in Laos; but the U.S. argues that such a government simply could not maintain itself in power. The Reds, who were at least theoretically members of Souvanna's coalition, would go back on the warpath. And since the Pathet Lao already control nearly two-thirds of the country, further fighting...
...four-engined Douglas DC-7 skimmed at 140 m.p.h. across the desert sands near Phoenix, Ariz., clipped a pile of railroad ties that sheared off its propellers and landing gear. Next, the left wing smashed into a 25-ft. mound of dirt. Then the right slammed into three poles, which sliced off its tip. The fuselage hurtled onward, hopscotched over a 55-ft. hill, skidded to a shattering stop and burst into flames. Tense U.S. aviation experts broke into grins of delight; rarely had they witnessed such constructive destruction...
...Goldwater branch of the GOP greeted the retreat of Advance with glee. The right-wing weekly Human Events gloated in an editorial that the magazine and its editors had been "little more than annoying thorns in the sides of conservative and moderate Republicans...