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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Easing the Burden. Before Johnson spoke, rumors had swirled around the capital that he would announce the dis patch of roughly 30,000 more U.S. troops to Viet Nam-in addition to the 525,000 already authorized. Instead, he announced that only 13,500 more men would be sent in the next five months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Bombing Pause | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...things, that members and Senate employees file statements of their financial holdings with the U.S. Comptroller General (TIME, March 22). The lists could be opened only after a majority vote of the six-man committee on Standards and Conduct. But under the Clark-Case proviso, Senators would have to dis close publicly their income and assets, along with those of their families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Guarding the Assets | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...AUSTERITY. "I have severely forbidden the construction of sumptuous houses in order to reserve labor and resources," announced .Thieu, adding that he had given "strict instructions to close def initely the dancing bars and other dis guised nightclubs that are harmful to our good moral traditions and deprave our youth." Outdoor markets for smug gled and stolen goods were also or dered out of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: State of the Union | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...added that "these modifications in no way alter the rule which the pub lic safety has always required, that per sons who are dangerous due to mental illness be confined." Despite the dis claimer, the ruling did raise the specter of a murderer found not guilty by rea son of insanity and later judged not insane enough for confinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decisions: Insane Then, Doesn't Mean Insane Now | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...opened on schedule, and in an equally busy day the industrials regained half of what they had lost. Most of the activity was caused by nervous small investors. Wall Street regulars took the gold panic with remarkable calm in the knowledge that while the situation could turn into a dis aster for the international monetary system, it was unlikely to have catastrophic effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold: At the Point of Panic | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

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