Word: combats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the country, which so far has been willing to give Richard Nixon time to extricate the U.S. from Viet Nam? With an evident sense that time may soon begin to run out, the President last week made several moves. He announced a second withdrawal of troops from combat and a two-month moratorium on the draft. He applied new pressure on the Congress to make selective service more equitable. And he used the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly to ask for help in ending...
...Viet Nam. It will also leave Nixon well behind the self-imposed timetable he stumbled into when he announced that he hoped to beat former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford's call for disengagement of 100,000 men this year. Only half of the new withdrawal consists of combat troops. Most are from relatively inactive fighting areas, and thus their leaving will not really test the replacement capability of South Vietnamese forces -a key criterion in U.S. withdrawal plans (see THE WORLD...
...evidenced in part by Wall Street: new peace probes or rumors generally send stock prices jumping upward. Still, it is the campuses that offer the most vocal opposition and provide the broadest base for organized protest. The entire academic community seems as stirred as ever about the lingering combat. Last week University of Michigan President Robben Fleming personally launched a two-day campus teach-in at Ann Arbor with a sharp antiwar speech. Rutgers President Mason W. Gross, who also heads the American Council on Education, said that his university will demonstrate that it is "a teacher and guardian...
...proposal and similar changes have been called for by Senator Edward Kennedy. The Kennedy version, however, contains a triggering device that would end college deferments in time of war. Mindful of Viet Nam, Kennedy defined "war" to exist when a certain percentage of draftees have lost their lives in combat. The Nixon bill does not attempt to define what constitutes...
Unfortunately, that street and its milieu overshadow the relationships within. Trying to combat a basically melodramatic situation, Scorsese goes too far in the opposite direction. He diffuses the action badly, destroying a good deal of plot continuity, and overindulges in scenes with J.R. and his buddies that are of peripheral importance. The whole of the picture is less than the sum of its parts, many of which abound with vitality and cinematic invention. Scorsese choreographs his camera movements with an exhilarating, easy grace, and his dramatic use of rock 'n' roll (the film's title comes from...