Word: camped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liver the second of his major position speeches. The first, two weeks earlier, had been on the urban crisis and caused few ripples. Now he spoke about Viet Nam, a subject on which he had been silent for two years. He proposed no radical departures, attempted instead to camp on unexceptionable middle ground. The U.S., he maintained, must seek a settlement "whose aims and guarantees safeguard the freedom and security of all Southeast Asia." The "Americanization of the effort, military and civilian, should be reversed." At the same time, he argued, Washington must somehow establish a more representative government...
...year. Some 25 miles long, the valley floor is 2,000 ft. above sea level. The jagged, spiny peaks on either side rise 5,000 ft. to 6,000 ft. and are covered with a triple-canopy jungle 100 ft. tall. Ever since a U.S. Special Forces camp was overrun in the valley in March of 1966, only furtive U.S. reconnaissance patrols have set foot in it. The North Vietnamese turned A Shau into a sanctuary and their greatest storehouse in I Corps. It became a key infiltration route from Laos and the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...Minnesota and lowa, McCarthy forces turned out many political novices for neighborhood caucus votes, and a well-organized McCarthy effort in Colorado produced unprecedented turn-outs in many areas. The energy in the McCarthy camp put pressure on the Humphrey forces to bring out the vote. Together they came up with the highest voting figures for precinct caucuses in Colorado history...
This bill will probably be unnecessary in keeping the marchers away from the Mall, since the Department of the Interior must grant them a permit before they can camp on federal property, and now it appears that this permit may not be granted...
Hoosier Governor Roger D. Branigin's provincial "Indiana-for-Hoosiers" campaign seems also to be faltering; the Governor cancelled all remaining campaign dates this afternoon without explanation. Many of Branigin's powerful Democratic machine workers are defecting to the Kennedy camp...