Word: dumesnil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school busing and welfare reform, possibly because the state has few blacks. One national issue which seems to stir lingering emotions is the war in Viet Nam-although at nowhere near the high pitch of four years ago. "This war kept a lot of younger people back," notes Alexander DuMesnil, Berlin's assistant police marshal. "My son was afraid he'd get drafted, and he still might. But the tenseness is going away-he's getting ready to buy a car." Bob Kohler, a Viet Nam veteran at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, protests quietly...
Some residents express downright hostility toward the candidates. "These politicians, what do they care about us?" asks Berlin's DuMesnil. "The only time we see them is when they're looking for a few votes." At a high school assembly in Milford, a student opened the questioning of Democratic Senator Vance Hartke by asking: "Senator, do you think students should be forced to come to these political rallies?" Hartke said no-and the student promptly walked out. As polltakers, reporters and canvassers for the candidates keep probing the voters, resentment is growing. "The people are getting tired...