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...from the sea at 1,000 feet darted the 36 sweptwing F-105 jets armed with rockets and 3,000-lb. bombs. Over North Viet Nam's port city of Haiphong, they were mere minutes from the target: the Uong Bi power plant, newest and most modern in all North Viet Nam, supplying 33% of Haiphong's electricity and 25% of Hanoi's. Low cloud cover and a deadly hail of antiaircraft fire made the mission as hairy as any carried out over the North so far. But down went thousands of rockets and 14 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Opening the Envelope | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...Hanoi's misreading of American student protest demonstrations is not a sufficient reason for smothering debate in this country over the war in general," he declared. He spoke to some 650 editors and broadcasters at the State Department's bi-annual "background conference," which prohibits attribution of any statements...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: High Official Defends Right to protest War | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...applicants is made up of members and supporters of the virtually all-Negro Freedom Democratic Party (FDP). The other consists mainly of representatives from college Young Democratic clubs in the state who are supported by the Mississippi Democratic Conference (MDC)--a bi-racial coalition of NAACP, organized labor (AFL-CIO), and white moderates who fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter Fight | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

However, given the political direction of the FDP, it doesnt seem likely that whites will ever agree to join it. Young Democrats organized around the bi-racial MDC coalition would provide at least the working beginnings of a new Democratic Party in Mississippi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charter Fight | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...some of the rural areas where white opposition was fiercest. Mississippi, the last holdout, bowed to court orders and admitted Negro first-graders in Biloxi, Jackson, and Leake County. At the University of Mississippi, two students have just been expelled for taking part in a demonstration against a bi-racial group of visitors to the campus. In Tuskegee, Ala., public schools that had closed rather than integrate are now open again on an integrated basis. The new federal aid-to-education bill will exert considerable influence by withholding aid from schools that cannot furnish acceptable plans for integration. In order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE OTHER SOUTH | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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