Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain, calculable result of today's fast is that North and South Vietnamese war victims will benefit from over $3500 of desperately needed aid. Though the staggering damage the United States has done in Southeast Asia makes this contribution no more than symbolic, there is still a good chance that the money will save some lives and make a few other lives more bearable. This in itself would make the fast worthwhile...
After a twenty minute march from the State House to the southeast corner of the Common, the demonstrators stood for an hour and a half in 37 degree weather as thirteen YAF speakers encouraged support for President Nixon and attacked the New Left, hippies, and communists...
...astronauts' own splashdown was far more gentle. At the end of a three-day homeward flight that was uneventful to the point of boredom, Yankee Clipper dropped into the choppy Pacific 405 miles southeast of American Samoa-exactly 10 days 4 hr. and 36 min. after its lightning-marred launch from Cape Kennedy. The landing was only 13 seconds off schedule and only 2.6 miles from its target near the bow of the Hornet. Even so, there was a moment of tension. Drifting down under its three big orange-and-white chutes in full view of a worldwide...
...Thais, who are nervous at the prospect of a U.S. stand-down in Southeast Asia, are as alarmed as Laos over the Chinese road work. Officials in Bangkok claim that China may be planning an armed invasion of northern Thailand, where government forces have been having recurring troubles with the Meo tribesmen since 1967. This is probably no more than a fanciful worry on the part of the Thais. A more likely explanation for the road may be that China is planning to step up aid to the Laotian rebels. During the National Day speeches in Peking last October, Laos...
Raquel's screenland novitiate was typically rugged. She lived in a $70-a-month apartment with her children. She had no job, no car, and her only income was a meager allowance from Welch, who by that time was serving with the Green Berets in Southeast Asia. Raquel, ever resourceful, tied up with Agent Noel Marshall, who coached her in the fundamentals of studio saleswomanship. Every day she rose at 6 a.m., dropped her children at a day-care center and set off on her unappointed rounds of photographers. It was a dreary life, but she kept plugging, waiting...