Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Specifically, eight months of bombing North Vietnam have chiefly been intended to prove to Hanoi that we are not about to be driven out of South Vietnam and that the Communists can hope for no better than a negotiates peace. Surely the point has been made by now. Senator Fulbright has suggested that the daily bomb runs temporarily be ended in order to persuade the North Vietnamese to negotiate. This offers the United States an escape from continued bombing which may be a serious strategic and psychological error...
Morgan was practicing law in 1963 in Birmingham when his time to speak came. That spring, Martin Luther King led a series of demonstrations in the city's streets. In September the Birmingham schools were desegregated. Two weeks later a bomb shattered a Negro church, killing four little girls. The next day, Charles Morgan Jr. rose to address the Young Men's Business Club of Birmingham...
...biggest, nearly 12,000 strong, started from the University of California's Berkeley campus, aimed to march 7½ miles to the Army Terminal in Oakland, but lacked a parade permit; police turned them back without incident after the first ½miles. Later, someone tossed a tear-gas bomb at the marchers in a Berkeley park...
Even the deepest tunnels are not safe from the 1,000-lb. bombs of the Guam-based B-52s, falling in sticks neatly bracketed to decapitate a small mountain. When the big bombers, converted from carrying nuclear weapons, first began making the 5,200-mile round trip from Guam to Viet Nam, critics snorted that it was overkill run riot, using elephants to swat mosquitoes. But the point was to hit the V.C. without warning (the B-52s fly so high that they are seldom seen or heard by their targets) in the heart of their eleven major strongholds, keep...
...anything. They treat the audience to a series of small, distasteful shocks, but as black comedy gives way to bald effrontery, even the shock wears off The Loved One seems as crude and pointless as a schoolboy's Halloween prank like tipping over tombstones or throwing a stink bomb into the parsonage...