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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That it did not was no tribute to Washington's wisdom. What the piracy of Pueblo did rehearse for the nation -and its adversaries-was a dismaying litany of military procedures and political assumptions that proved in the crunch to be inadequate, unimaginative and unbelievably overconfident. It will probably take years to dissect and document all the slippages and oversights that have led the U.S. to the brink of a second front in Asia. It is already apparent that this was a casus belli that need never have arisen...
...winds and brass poked tiny pin points, like stars among scudding clouds. Through it all one black-and-grey-robed soloist warbled the mournful, breathy tones of the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute, while another tapped the strings of the lutelike biwa with a wooden plectrum, suggesting the sharp, dry crunch of dead branches in an icy forest...
...weakness in housing alongside a possibly unhealthy boom in investment, inventories or even consumer spending on durable goods." A tax surcharge, Ackley insisted, would make the difference between an economy that is "healthy, balanced and noninflationary" and one that is "overexuberant, unbalanced and that generates a monetary and financial crunch...
Nonetheless, in two weeks the 410 delegates rushed out 118 "conclusions." Predictably, one resolution declared that the massive American military presence in Viet Nam was unjustifiable. "Amid the gritty specifics, the crunch of political forces," comments Ramsey, "there are two sides to this and to most world questions to which Christians can with equal sincerity adhere." Another resolution stated without amplification that nuclear war "is against God's will"-ignoring the fact that "the morality of deterrence depends upon it not being wholly immoral for a government ever to use an atomic weapon...
Leatherneck Square. The Communists fire their artillery at Con Thien on a random schedule to keep the Marines guessing when the next bombardment or the lone round of explosives will crunch into the camp. "Those single rounds are the most dangerous," says a young Marine. "But the barrages wear you down. You just lie there shaking and saying 'Please, Christ, just get me out of this...