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The 1984 Friendship Games, or Friendship-84 (Russian: Дружба-84, Druzhba-84), was an international multi-sport event held between 2 July and 16 September 1984 in the Soviet Union and eight other Eastern Bloc states which boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 9: Ali Bakhta Algeria 21.26: 10: Czesław Prądzyński Poland 21.40: 11: Miroslav Púchovský Czechoslovakia 21.41: 12: Leszek Dunecki Poland 21.42: 13: Marco Mautino
Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 is a book written by James T. Fisher, providing a historical discussion of Thomas Anthony Dooley III, an American medical missionary who worked in Vietnam and Laos in the 1950s and early 1960s. The book itself is viewed not only as a statement on Dooley's "lives" as a medical missionary ...
By the 1960s, the superpowers, the US and the USSR, as well as growing regional power China had had significant influence in Southeast Asia. From 1961 to 1968, the US had had steadily increased its military involvement in Vietnam, providing support for the ostensibly pro-democratic South Vietnam in the form of military advisors (during Kennedy's term [1]) and later ground troops (during ...
For Friendship, Charles collaborated with several established country stars in a series of duets. Whereas the Modern Sounds singles were not explicitly released to country radio , the singles from Friendship were, and the album provided Charles with his highest-charting hits on the country charts, including a number-one country hit with Willie ...
The Vietnam Friendship Village's structure and organisation is done by the Veterans Association of Vietnam, and is supported by a global network of donors and volunteers. [3] With active fundraising branches in the United States, [ 4 ] Vietnam, [ 5 ] Germany, [ 6 ] and France, [ 7 ] the organization draws on international support to fund ...
Friendship Pass (traditional Chinese: 友誼關; simplified Chinese: 友谊关; Vietnamese: Hữu Nghị Quan), also commonly known by its older name Ải Nam Quan (traditional Chinese: 隘南關; simplified Chinese: 隘南关), is a pass near the China-Vietnam border, between China's Guangxi and Vietnam's Lạng Sơn province. The pass itself ...
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