Word: callings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national debate on the war moved quickly to discussion of next steps in U.S. disengagement. The most prominent voice in the argument last week belonged to Clark Clifford, Secretary of Defense in the final ten months of the Johnson Administration. It was Clifford who persuaded Lyndon Johnson to call a partial bombing halt in North Viet Nam last March-a decision that led directly to the opening of negotiations in Paris. Now, in a Foreign Affairs article, Clifford proposed that 100,000 U.S. servicemen be pulled out this year and that all American ground-combat forces leave South Viet...
...Minuteman version, with a range of 7,500 miles, carries up to three warheads (each under one megaton) and some chaff that is released to confuse enemy anti-ballistic missile radar. Present plans call for deployment of 500 MIRVed Minuteman Ill's, in addition to 500 Minuteman II's with single warheads. All would be housed in 90-ft.-deep silos, located at least seven miles apart to prevent an enemy warhead from destroying two sites...
...Wales, there are many who resent his presence. Perhaps the most radical dissenters are the members of the Free Wales Army: eight young members are now on trial in Swansea, and some evidence produced during the trial hints that they planned to storm Caernarvon Castle during the investiture. Some call the army "a standing joke . . . they couldn't blow the skin off a rice pudding." But the organization has managed to commit eleven acts of sabotage against public facilities since March...
...sound, he quickly learned parts of the damselfish language and began using it to control his subjects. By playing a recorded chirping sound, for example, he caused the damselfish to twist 45 degrees and then make a U-shaped dip, a pattern it often follows during spawning. Another recorded call actually caused color changes on the body of the fish...
...escalation, without requesting an increase in taxes. Between 1965 and 1968, federal spending jumped 47%, and the Government put much more money into the economy than it took out. Johnson feared that if he asked for higher taxes, Congress would balk at paying for what some economists now call the "marriage of the warfare and the welfare states." When Johnson belatedly asked for a tax increase in 1967, Congress dallied for ten months before enacting it. By the time the sur charge took effect a year ago, the fed eral deficit had swelled to $25 billion...