Word: d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...having read the U.S. press primarily, and in detail, it was hard to believe anything but that the enormous firepower and large scale military operations the U.S. was waging was indeed winning the war. Perhaps it could never really become militarily victorious. It seemed from everything I'd been able to read that we were winning military victories...
...talking to the refugees, the answer was found very simply. They'd been driven from their homes, and they'd most often been driven out by airplanes which came and strafed and bombed their villages, and they'd fled to the cities. They'd lost their means of livelihood. In a sense they'd almost lost their manlihood. Their indigation at the government of South Vietnam and at the Americans was very pointed and direct. They pointed the finger at us as having driven them from their land...
...Cause I'd say things that took me All my life...
Short Notices THE DOUBLE HELIX by James D. Watson. 226 pages. Atheneum...
...next act of this saddening spectacle will be played out on Monday when Senator Mansfield (D-Mont.) will again try to close the discussion. To get the open housing bill through, supporters will probably offer to exempt single-family homes. At present only owner-occupied homes of up to four units are exempt, the "Mrs. Murphy's boarding houses." On the civil rights bill, Dirksen himself has offered an amendment, suggesting that the states be allowed six months to act against the offenders. The federal government would interfere only after six months, if a state had failed to take action...