Word: defendant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seniors who bothered, who were not real "Walter Mittys," in the words of one University President, the spring was a hectic scramble to get out of service legally. Many hired lawyers to give them advice and to defend them if they needed it. Others looked into bizzare possibilities: setting up an agricultural cooperative to gain II-C exemptions as farmers, applying to Divinity School, undergoing psychoanalysis. For many, the ploys worked. But the pressure was enormous. For many, the greater part of the Spring semester was spent trying to figure out ways to evade the draft, and failing...
...attacked are convinced that Giap envisages it as a second Dienbienphu. He is out after a victory that would completely smash the will of the U.S. to continue a hard and dirty war of rising casualties and fitful overall progress in bringing South Viet Nam to where it can defend itself. Around Khe Sanh he has ringed 40,000 troops. Northward is grouped his 325C Division, to the south lies the 304. To the east lies the 324B and another division, and to the southeast there are elements of a fifth division. Across the Laotian border and north...
...elbow to elbow in their bunkers and trenches inside a perimeter only half a mile wide. But U.S. units numbering 40,000 men support the Marines within reinforcing range, with all the massed artillery and air power that Westmoreland and the Joint Chiefs of Staff believe are needed to defend the Marines. In the past ten days alone, B-52s have averaged four strikes daily on the Red-held hills around Khe Sanh...
...reading your article concerning returning vets [Jan. 12], I was deeply ashamed of my country and fellow citizens. A nation that can afford to ignore and reject the people who defend it is marked by hypocrisy and decay. No government project can compensate completely. The gratitude for the personal sacrifice and danger these men endured must come from the people...
...valley astride communication routes from Dienbienphu in North Viet Nam to Communist areas of Laos, and was an important Royalist island in Pathet Lao territory. The Royalists had taken the town from the Reds two years ago, started a rural-development program, and promised the peasants that they would defend them...