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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But Mathias is deeply concerned about the alienation of the progressive Republicans from the Administration. The Haynsworth defeat showed that the party must broaden its appeal, not narrow it, Mathias contends, and the Administration ought to work more closely with its own progressive Senators. "There is a whole group of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One Republican's Ordeal | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Mathias felt that the Haynsworth nomination was an appeal to sectionalism and to the right. He also believed that it threatened the court's standards. So he cast his negative vote-but with sorrow. "It's been such a tough ordeal because you wanted to stick with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: One Republican's Ordeal | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

So far, the tale of My Lai has only been told by a few Vietnamese survivors-all of them pro-V.C.-and half a dozen American veterans of the incident. Yet military men privately concede that stories of what happened at My Lai are essentially correct. If so, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MY LAI MASSACRE | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Before the massacre, My Lai was a poor hamlet in Quang Ngai province, whose low, marshy coastal plains had been-and still are-a base for the Viet Cong 48th Battalion. My Lai was a "fortified" hamlet whose bricked-up houses served as bunkers for marauding V.C. cadres, and was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MY LAI MASSACRE | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

As Ridenhour described it, one of his C Company friends was stunned by the fate of a small wounded boy who had been standing by the hamlet trail. "The boy was clutching his wounded arm with his other hand, while blood trickled between his fingers," Ridenhour wrote. "He just stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MY LAI MASSACRE | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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