Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After 50 years of full control over the minds of the entire country," writes Sakharov, "the leadership seems afraid of even a hint of debate. Yet the only guarantee of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economic development and culture is intellectual free dom and debate." Sakharov charges that censorship has not only killed "the living soul" of Soviet literature, but is stifling fresh ideas in other creative fields as well. He therefore calls for the abolition of Glavlit, the omnipotent censorship department that rules over the printed word in the Soviet Union, and urges its replacement...
...addition, the constitution outlaws all Communists, forbids the press to print anything that might be construed as an incitement to change the established order and places all political parties under the control of a special court. The court will approve only those groups that, in the constitution's words, "contribute to the advancement of the national interest"-a wording vague enough to enable the junta to outlaw any groups that might threaten its own grip on power...
...crap," says Lieut. Colonel Robert W. Hassinger, deputy commander of the Special Forces in Viet Nam. "There's not much glamour in our outfit -just a lot of hard work." Well, not quite. There are only 2,600 Green Berets in Viet Nam, but they exercise control over a force of 50,000 Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They run the most economic and perhaps the most unusual operation in the war, carried out on an annual budget of just over $100 million and a seemingly limitless supply...
...third, are there on their second tour; some noncoms have been in the country for six years and plan to stay until the war is over. Says Colonel Harold Aaron, commanding officer of all Green Berets in Viet Nam: "Special Forces provides a man with a microcosm he can control...
Loincloth & Bracelet. The Special Forces came to Viet Nam in 1961. Mov ing out into the jungled hinterland where Saigon exerted little or no control, they recruited irregular forces from minority groups-mostly Montagnard tribesmen-and established fortified base camps. From the beginning, the Americans, unlike the Vietnamese, got along well with the "Yards." It is not unusual to see a Special Forces man, decked out in loincloth and wearing the plain brass Montagnard bracelets that indicate blood brotherhood, attending a village party or a wedding as an honored guest. Though the Americans are a familiar sight in many villages...