Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Thus, when Touré frantically informed the United Nations last week that his country was being attacked by "an imperialist Portuguese invasion," there were a few yawns and even some protests of "Not again!" Even so, the U.N. Security Council held an emergency session and decided to dispatch a five-man fact-finding team headed by a Nepalese general to look into the situation...
Copyright 1970 Dispatch News Service International...
...author, a member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, recently returned from a trip to Southeast Asia. She and Michael Morrow of Dispatch News Service were expelled from Saigon after attending the founding meeting of the Popular Front for the Defense of Peace. A post-doctoral student at Harvard last year, she is now teaching at Tufts and the Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School for Social Change...
...mercenary army in Laos, which is the main fighting force for the Americans there, is virtually destroyed. It's mainly the Meo army, and the Kennedy report estimates that the total population of the Meo is now down to about 200,000- from 400,000 a decade ago. The Dispatch News Service correspondent in Vientiane who has recently been investigating the Meo says that 12-year-old boys are drafted into their army immediately and he'd seen kids as young as eight in the Meo army...
Well over a million at least. How can you even count the casualties? I went to a refugee camp in April and counted about 400 people. A Dispatch correspondent went back in June, and in those months two months ten people had died of malnutrition and disease...