Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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For eight years in Viet Nam, the Viet Cong have systematically conducted a campaign of terrorism. Last year they killed an average 500 civilians a month. Though Cambodia's war has become Viet Nam's in miniature, most Western officials refused to believe that terrorism would play a...
The sabotage of the embassy was the latest in a series of bombings that until last week seemed unconnected. In October there were two injuries when a man tossed a hand grenade in the capital's central market place Last month 23 people were killed and 29 wounded when...
In hopes of throttling the terrorists, the Cambodian government ordered a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for foreigners, especially those who would be "susceptible to Communist propaganda." By that, the government meant Chinese and Vietnamese residents. Indeed, a man of mixed Chinese-Vietnamese blood soon "confessed" to the embassy...
In recent weeks, suspected supporters of the deposed Premier, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, were also arrested. A Sihanouk son, Prince Norodom Noradipo, and a daughter, Princess Norodom Botum Bopha, are among those held. From Peking, Sihanouk last week lamented the arrests in a cable to TIME Correspondent Robert Anson. Anson, who...
Mexico, according to one etymological theory, is an Aztec term meaning "land of the people buried under lava." Today it is a country almost half of whose 48.3 million people are buried in poverty. Urban industrialization and agricultural reform have made Mexico the most economically successful of Latin America'...