Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NORTH. The Communists resumed with a vengeance their offensive just below the Demilitarized Zone, where South Vietnamese troops had stopped the initial invasion four weeks ago. Charging at night and under clouds that held U.S. and South Vietnamese air attacks to a minimum last week, enemy armor and infantry overran Dong Ha and encircled Quang Tri city. Farther south, battered ARVN troops were driven from long-besieged Firebase Bastogne, opening the way for an enemy drive on Hue, the ancient imperial capital. A drive on Hue, in turn, could pose a direct threat to U.S. troops guarding an American base...
...Communist victory opened the way for possible attacks on Hue, the former imperial capital, 32 miles south of Quang Tri. The Communists now control a 27 mile strip south of the demilitarized zone...
...there was one dude who was convinced that every block he threw was a steppingstone to a contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Sure, the Pork daydreamed a little about getting past the last Fuzz safetyman and hauling in a nice, spiralling bomb just as he eased into the end zone at Schaefer Stadium...
...facilities..." But the administration was not to be soothed, for Epps's reply contains, buried in the fourth paragraph of an otherwise sensible discussion concerning the distinction between a local convention of a national group and a national convention of a local group, a brief excursion into the twilight zone of panic and uncertainty: "I shall be grateful if you will let me know what is actually happening." This letter is also noteworthy for its seeming evasion (by insisting that rooms were not available) of a stand on the noble and enduring principle so bravely stated--in these days when...
...Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward, The First Circle) deal mainly with the victims of Stalinist terror. Last week, in a dramatic departure from his earlier reticence, Solzhenitsyn talked with two Western newsmen about his own precarious existence under an increasingly hostile regime. Said he: "A kind of forbidden contaminated zone has been created around my family...