Word: ranges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force with force, Duvalier rushed 200 troops into the north, blocked the main road to Cap Haitien, surrounded the airport and personally directed every operation and news release from his corner office in the palace. "We must bomb the enemy systematically," he instructed his commander by phone. Later, Duvalier rang up Washington, where the Haitian ambassador, Arthur Bonhomme, was holding a press conference, and instructed the diplomat to inform the assembled reporters that Papa's troops were "mopping up right...
...grave at Ap Dong Gi, more than 100 victims were found, all buried alive, all standing, with only the hands and arms of some extending vainly above the ground. ¶ As he clung to safety inside a pagoda, a Buddhist monk heard screams and pleas for mercy as shots rang out nightly during the first two weeks of February. Later, the bodies of 67 victims, including Nguyen Ngoc Ky, leader of the Viet Nam Nationalist Party, were found in 13 nearby graves...
...Penney Co., the nation's second-largest general merchandiser (after Sears, Roebuck & Co.), rang up $208 million sales in March, thus outracing last March by 8.3% and completing a five-year stretch of consecutive monthly-sales increases. Since 1962, sales have risen from $1.7 billion to 1967's $2.75 billion-a 60% increase that edged out Sears's (59%), far exceeded that of third-ranked Montgomery Ward...
Focal point of the campaign will be Abernathy's "City of New Hope," a super-shanty town that by mid-May will house some 3,000 of the anticipated 50,000 demonstrators. Last week hammers rang and saws brayed as volunteers built the first of 200 triangular-shaped shelters, costing $10 per inhabitant, which will be moved to the camp-in site-as soon as one can be agreed upon. Congressional pressure against allowing the marchers to use federal land is mounting. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall has been cool to the use of the Capitol Mall, where crowds gathered...
...Xerox Corp. rang up a record first three months, with revenues increasing 24% to $202 million, while earnings were up 13% to $28.8 million...