Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oliver S. Moore III, 25, concentrated on economics in his study of foreign affairs at the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 1964, and then worked for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He was our stringer (part-time correspondent) in Charlottesville, Va., before he moved to New York, where he now is reporting for Business...
...second instalment portrayed Harriet Tubman, the tiny but herculean conductor of the Underground Railroad, who never lost a passenger. Included was her gunboat raid into Confederate territory, making her, according to an official dispatch, "the only woman in American military history ever to plan and conduct an armed expedition against enemy forces...
...fourth paragraph of a long Associated Press dispatch on the weekend's events, it was learned: "The demonstration had the official blessing of the North Vietnamese government...
...Rigid for Peace. It is this concern about getting too deeply involved that is most often expressed in editorials. "There must be a better way to carry on this war and bring it to an honorable conclusion," said Virginius Dabney's Richmond Times-Dispatch. "As things are going now, it will never end and the U.S. will be bled white. It has become obvious that little progress is being made, despite the presence of 500,000 U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam." The same fear has been expressed by the Miami Herald. "Politically, militarily and most important, honorably," said...
...Press Editor Mark Ethridge Jr. to negotiate a U.S. withdrawal on grounds that the National Liberation Front's program for South Viet Nam is much akin to U.S. principles (TIME, Oct 13). Otherwise, about all that is left the journalists is to resort to humor, as Richmond Times-Dispatch Columnist Ed Grimsley did last week. "Clearly what the country needs," he wrote, "is a defoliation expert-not to strip the jungles of Viet Nam but to defoliate the tangled thicket of contradictory views the Government officials, political leaders and journalistic pundits express on the war." Another Grimsley possibility...