Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aimed at "the realization of one's potential." He asks students in these "encounter groups" to act out their inner feelings rather than talk about them. A man who feels psychically "up tight" may be put inside a circle of classmates and asked to break through this human barrier. The University of California's George I. Brown, an associate professor of education, employs charades in his creativity workshops: he gets a woman to go through the motions of taking her girdle off, a man to pretend to release a balloon...
Moreover, the U.S. has plans afoot to make things even more difficult for Hanoi. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's plan to lay an electronic barrier across the demilitarized zone aims at reducing Hanoi's ability to slip men and supplies into the South. The barrier is expected to run into Laos as well, which will vastly increase Hanoi's difficulties, since many infiltration routes make an end run around the North-South border and snake through Laos...
Military engineers will start work late this year or early in 1968 on the barrier, known so far to the Pentagon as Project Dye Marker and immediately nicknamed "McNamara's Wall." But it will be no ordinary wall: instead of a Maginot line of concrete and steel, great tracts of rugged, mountainous jungle will be guarded by hidden electronic devices. Some, no larger than a silver dollar, can be seeded by aircraft; once in place, they will detect the movement of the smallest enemy groups and transmit warnings to gun crews miles away. "We are getting better and better...
McNamara's news was greeted sympathetically by Washington critics of the war, who see the barrier as a possible first step to scale down the bombing of North Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged such a barricade since April. But there was little enthusiasm from soldiers. They oppose any attempt to tie down troops in static positions while the enemy roams free. "Militarily, it's no great shakes," grumbled a Marine officer. An Army general was kinder. "I guess it can't hurt anything," he hazarded, "if it doesn't draw...
Childish Stories. At the risk of erecting a credibility wall between himself and the public by leaving almost every question unanswered, McNamara forbade all discussion of the barrier by military men to stop any seepage of information valuable to the enemy. Although he promised to keep Congress up to date, American taxpayers may never know the cost ($1 billion over two years, according to one estimate) or the effectiveness of McNamara's stratagem...