Word: combating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notion that imprisonment corrects criminals is a surprisingly recent idea. Before the 18th century, prisons were mainly used not to punish but to detain the accused or hostages-the debtor until he paid, for example. To combat crime, Europeans castrated rapists, cut off thieves' hands, tore out perjurers' tongues. England boasted 200 hanging offenses. When crime still flourished, reformers argued that overkill punishment is no deterrent. In 1786, the Philadelphia Quakers established incarceration as a humane alternative. Seeking penitence (source of "penitentiary"), the Quakers locked convicts in solitary cells until death or release. So many died or went...
Exhibits A Through J. The next morning, looking almost relieved that contemplation was at last giving way to combat, Kennedy took the podium in the old Senate Office Building's Caucus Room, where John Kennedy had announced eight years before, where Eugene McCarthy had lodged his challenge four months ago. With him was Ethel, becomingly tanned from the ski slopes, one small boy attached to each hand and seven other children...
...strange-looking aircraft will wheel over Takhli Air Force Base in Thailand early this week, cock their delta-shaped wings forward like alighting eagles, then touch down with needle-nosed insouciance among the warplanes that almost daily raid North Viet Nam. They are the first combat-bound models of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber (originally, the TFX), contracted for six years ago under Robert McNamara to serve both the Air Force and the Navy. Takhli's new planes will be F-111 As, the Air Force model, which will be tested in bombing runs over North...
...carefully unadvertised presence in Laos. The U.S. ambassador in the capital of Vientiane, William Sullivan, has quietly spent his time directing little bits of crucial help to the right places, leaving Prince Souvanna Phouma free to run the government in his own way. Officially, the U.S. has no combat troops in Laos, but it does have 72 military attaches in Vientiane, more than are assigned to any other U.S. embassy in the world. Six months ago, an American in the capital was a rarity; now husky, crewcut young Americans in civilian clothes are common in the streets and often fill...
...standard three-man teams (correspondent, cameraman and sound man) have begged off from hazardous assignments, and the networks are having trouble reporting all the battles. CBS Tokyo Bureau Chief Igor Oganesoff, who was frequently shuttled into Viet Nam for fill-in duty, has refused further combat assignments, ABC's Don North, a veteran of 18 months there, asked to be transferred. ABC's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sam Jaffe also decided after three recent weeks in Viet Nam that "I won't cover Khe Sanh, and I refuse to go back to Hué." Summed up Jaffe...