Word: aftermath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STORY OF A BATTLE AND ITS HISTORIC AFTERMATH by Don Oberdorfer. 385 pages. Doubleday...
Indeed it did, although not in the way that Westmoreland meant. As Washington Post Reporter Don Oberdorfer notes in this skillful analysis of the Tet offensive and its aftermath, "The North Vietnamese lost a battle. The United States lost something even more important -the confidence of its people at home...
PRISONS Attica Aftermath In the wake of the tragic Attica uprising, New York state officials were trying to ensure that it can never happen again. They talk faintly of prison reform, much more passionately of better security. Shaken more than ever before in its history, the state prison system is determined to do better what it has always done before...
...blocks from the Supreme Court building. The guest speaker was Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Preceding him, Alfred F. Ross, president of Georgetown's student bar association, reflected the somber mood of Burger's audience by making an impassioned reference to the prison riot and its aftermath. "What happened at Attica," he said, "was not merely a senseless and brutal massacre of men whose lives had already been unspeakably mutilated and wasted. What we witnessed was but the latest and least equivocal manifestation, for all the world to see with horror, that what we call our system...
Will the agonizing aftermath of My Lai never end? Last week the court-martial of Captain Ernest L. Medina, Lieut. William Galley's superior officer, pressed painfully on. It seemed less and less likely that anyone would ever know for sure who was responsible for what on the bloody day of March...