Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The end came unexpectedly when Colonel Kouprasith's forces, wearing white armbands, and Captain Kong Le's forces, wearing red armbands, threatened to have it out right there in Vientiane. Souvanna decided it was time to go. Still president of Air Laos, Souvanna ordered up a Boeing Stratoliner...
Back in Souvanna's late capital, General Sounthone Pathammavong, army commander in chief under Souvanna, announced that he had formed a "temporary military government." Vientiane Radio told little of what else went on, but gave its listeners some inscrutably Oriental advice on how to carry on under the circumstances...
"The atmosphere in Cuba is just like it was in November 1958, right before Batista fell," reported a traveler from Havana last week. The traveler was only partly right; Fidel Castro is far stronger than Batista. But for the first time last week, the rebellion against Castro spread out to...
One afternoon the labor movement, taken over by Castro stooges and turned into a Castro company union, burst out in a stunning outcry that recalled the mood of the June 1953 riots in East Berlin. Summoned by Castro's Confederation of Cuban Workers to repudiate their secretary-general, anti...
All over the island, Cubans bracketed Havana with little acts of defiance. ¶At Corralillo, 100 miles eastward, on Cuba's north coast, farmers fed up with Castro's unkept promises, rose and fought his militia for two days.