Word: matting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Pathet Lao controls. As Vientiane counted its dead (an estimated 200), TIME Reporter James Wilde cabled: "The streets were littered with broken glass, shattered bricks, mangled cars, shell cases, abandoned trucks and Jeeps. In the center of town I passed bodies covered with a cloth or a bamboo mat. Funeral pyres lit the sky. Here and there the sidewalks were stained with blood." On the heels of Kong Le's retreat, Premier Prince Boun Oum drove into Vientiane and sent out an appeal for U.S. aid for his ravaged capital...
...Congo's airports and taking over the radio stations, the U.N. had weakened Premier Patrice Lumumba, whom Moscow had hoped to use as a cover for Soviet penetration of the new nation. If he fell, the Kremlin would have little hope of continuing the flow of Russian planes, matériel and military personnel with which, charged Wadsworth, Moscow hoped to establish "a Soviet satellite state in the heart of Africa...
...dapper, mustachioed, faintly weary, cheeks feverishly afire with fine wine. He had the Broadway boulevardier's neon eye for his sort of news; sent in 1935 to the Metropolitan Opera to hear Lily Pons, he returned to praise not her larynx but her navel: "Who cares for a mat ter of pitch when one can gaze upon the loveliest tummy that ever graced the operatic stage...
...interested in is Senator Kennedy being elected President." And his implication was unmistakably clear: anyone who failed to cooperate might find the welcome mat, and the provender of political patronage, pulled out from under him unceremoniously at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after next January...
...what little flying Luftwaffe pilots could get in was done under the noses of Soviet observation posts on the East German border. So precious is space within West Germany's constricted borders that Strauss argued he could not even find storage room for the 90-day supply of matériel that NATO has asked the West German forces to maintain...