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According to Barbara Ackermann, who served as a city councillor in the late 1960s and as mayor in 1972 and 1973, the city's action at this juncture has been unified and rapid compared with its response to the most recent major U.S. military involvement, the conflict in Vietnam...
...sense: the consequences of military action are unpredictable. I learned this as Secretary time after time after time: we did certain things we thought would lead to certain results, and the results were different. The Soviets have learned the same thing. Nobody predicted at any particular point in the 1960s the evolution of events in Vietnam. And I think what Powell and Schwarzkopf and the Marine generals have said here, and said very responsibly, is "We can predict the outcome but not the blood costs, particularly; we know we can win, but we can't predict how long it will...
...treatment to slow runaway wage and price increases. Brazil announced a hold on wage increases until July and an indefinite freeze on prices. Economy Minister Zelia Cardoso de Mello also disclosed plans to dismantle much of the country's elaborate system of indexation, which has been used since the 1960s to offset the effects of inflation. Among the system's inflation-fueling features scheduled to be phased out: so-called overnight bank accounts that pay interest to depositors...
...late 1960s, even European allies had denounced U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The negative consequences for America's reputation in the Third World still persist today...
...obligation toward the men and women in uniform. Yes, the volunteer army means that the sacrifice of having a son, a relative, a friend in Saudi Arabia is shared unevenly. My own burden is scant. But class and caste also shielded people like me from the draft in the 1960s; for much of the Vietnam War, such social inequities were the dirty little secret of the upper middle class. This time, at least, the topic was a major theme of the congressional debate. Such honesty does not erase the unfairness of a volunteer army, but it does suggest national maturity...