Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington over who should be doing what in the war and who is really in charge. Speculation along those lines was heightened by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who told a radio audience that there was a strong chance of a split within the Viet Cong's political arm, the National Liberation Front. "It may be that at some future date," he said, "some of the non-Communist members of the N.L.F. may very well want to be brought into a government and may very well be the very ones we have to negotiate with...
...beat the Republican presidential candidate and the Democrat as well, thinking that a three-way stand-off in the Electoral College, with no candidate managing to win the required 270 votes, might throw the decision to the House of Representatives. After almost seven weeks of baby kissing and arm wringing in 14 states, however, Lonesome George has little cause for serious hope. Of the 66,059 signatures he must gather in California, for example, he has rounded up 25,000 at most, and he must file his petition...
...color. In the interest of speeding things up, no longer may a pitcher stand out there shaking off catcher's sign after sign while tension mounts; no longer will a reliever trudge in from the faraway bullpen like a matador with his warmup jacket slung over his pitching arm (he will now ride in a golf cart); no longer will a batter try to rattle the pitcher by demanding that the umpire examine the ball. What's left to relieve the boredom? The seventh-inning stretch...
What They Can Do. Nothing can save Nguyen Phat Luom's right eye, destroyed by a grenade, but Boston doctors are building him a prosthetic hand, powered by muscles in his upper arm. Tran Van Lam, 13, will get artificial legs. Nguyen Thi Thuy, 7, has her left arm temporarily attached to her face so that its skin may provide her with new lips to replace those blown away. Nguyen Van Ba, 14, no longer has testes, but a bomb-blasted urethra has been repaired...
...whimsical sketches of literary figures to savage caricatures of President Johnson and other members of his Administration. Often, a bloated, supercomplacent L.B.J. is pictured providing nourishment for lesser creatures. In one instance, he is in bed with South Viet Nam Vice President Ky, who is sucking blood from his arm through a tube. In another, Johnson is cast as a crocodile suckling generals, industrialists and a computer...