Word: 7th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ARVN regulars constitute South Viet Nam's military spine, and on them the U.S. has expended its greatest training efforts. Those efforts, too, need improvement. Of the ten regular divisions, only three are considered "good" by U.S. commanders: the 1st in northernmost I Corps, and the 7th and 21st in the Delta. One division, the Delta's 25th, is rated virtually a disaster; the other six divisions range from "spotty" to "promising...
...even if the Administration is acting immorally in Vietnam, the traditional, legal methods of protest and persuasion are far from bankrupt. Cambridge's November 7th ballot will contain a resolution opposing the war in Vietnam, and many anti-war advocates are campaigning for the resolution. An increasing number of Congressmen and Senators have abandoned their pro-Administration viewpoints. And the latest Gallup Poll indicates that 46 per cent of the population now believes it was a mistake to become involved in Vietnam...
Three Harvard professors urged a group of one hundred students last night to help persuade Cambridge residents to vote for the anti-Vietnam War referendum November 7th...
...Pattern, Murder in Canton); of cancer; in The Hague. An Orientalist by training and an ambassador by trade (to Japan, Malaysia), van Gulik was studying ancient Asian prose when he found the classic magistrate-detectives of Chinese literature. Supplying Occidental motives but preserving the delicate puzzle plots of the 7th century Tang dynasty, he pitted his wise and wily Dee against tyrants, palace power-seekers and assorted hatchetmen in 17 thrillers...
Syria was last on the Israli agenda. For the first three days of fighting Syrian artillery shelled border settlements in the Northern region of Israel around Tel Dan and Gonen while armor units made slight headway into Israeli territory. By the 7th, Israeli armor columns were transferred to the North and fought their way up the heavily fortified Syrian hills toward Mas'ada and Qunetra...