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Other major revolts, in the third, sixth and tenth centuries, helped the Viets build a martial spirit, which was needed to ward off attacks from Tais in the west and Chams in the south. A dozen more wars and another ruthless Chinese occupation in the early 15th century reinforced the Viets' independent spirit and burned hostility toward the Chinese into their minds for good. Before World War II, Nationalist China gave shelter to anti-French Vietnamese political refugees, but even this consideration failed to erase the enmity. In his subsequent war against the French, Ho Chi Minh was offered...
...Even after the old man died Christmas time, 1976, the Chicago Democratic Organization--the only remaining big-city political machine in the nation--pulled itself together under the sure hand and compromising nature of Michael A. Bilandic, a smooth party pro from Daley's own back-of-the-Yards ward. All the nascent fiefdoms popping up across town fell before the power of the new mayor and the still viable party machinery...
...husband, a former newspaperman, and a Hyde Park liberal organizer named Don Rose, now considered a traitor by the all-but-dead lakefront independent movement. Byrne was Daley's loyal hand-maiden--willing to sing his praises more loudly and obsequiously than even the most seasoned of ward-heelers. It was she who helped direct the late Mayor's infamous infiltration of dissident groups. When Daley was alive, she was a terror; her acid-tongued remarks stung any who didn't toe the party line. When Daley died, Byrne, who had made few friends in the Machine aside from...
Three TIME photographers−Kaveh Golestan, David Burnett and Cathy Leroy−faced equal hazards. They managed to work themselves into the embattled U.S. embassy under heavy fire. Golestan, holding a burning piece of paper under his nose to ward off the effects of tear gas, also reported on the attack for the cover story...
...Denis Lapensee, Bill McCreary) 2:03; H--Dave Burke (Mike Watson, George Hughes) 4:11; H--Tom Murray (Bob McDonald, Graham Carter) 5:14; H--Watson, (John Cochrane, G. Hughes) 0:47; J. Burke (Garrity, Dunderdale) 2:43; H--Millen (Manganoo, Burke) 6:15; H--C Dan Fridgen (Bill Ward, Lennox Sterling) 7:42; H--Murray (McDonald, Trainor) 7:40; H--G. Hughes (Carter, Litchfield) 13:47; H--Watson, (G. Hughes, Burke) 0:10; H--Millen (Burke, Mangano) 1:16; H--Murray (McDonald, Trainor...