Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teen-age entertainer-turned-politico, a theme explored recently in the English film Privilege. The central character is a delinquent (Christopher Jones) who caterwauls his way into the hearts of young America. An opportunistic Senator (Hal Holbrook) gets a law passed that enfranchises 15-year-olds. They elect Jones President, and suddenly, he-and-shedonism is for everyone under 35. Oldsters who have passed that milestone are packed into concentration camps and mind-blown with a steady diet...
Whether the allied force of some 12,000 men would attempt to root out the North Vietnamese gunners dug into the hills above them remained to be seen. But, in any case, the allies are not likely to elect to stay in A Shau, given the weather and the number of men who would be tied down in de fending it. Instead, Operation Delaware aimed to even an old score for the men of the Special Forces who fell there in 1966-and to destroy all the equipment and tools of war the Communists have so painstakingly assembled...
When and if the Communists do elect to come out fighting again, they will find the allies far better prepared for Round 2 than they were for Round 1. From the A Shau valley in the north to the environs of Saigon, allied units are aggressively trying to break up Communist formations before they can be fully assembled for offensive use. The South Vietnamese army has invaded the A Shau valley, an almost untouchable redoubt of Communist troops since they overran a U.S. Special Forces base there in 1966. Other allied units are positioned for "mobile defense" to come...
...different kind of political action from supporting a worthwhile candidate, but it will make a point. Antonia H. Chayes (Mrs. Abram Chayes, Human Resources Consultant, Model Cities, Boston; Dean-Elect, Jackson College, Tufts University...
...some theologians, the emergence of this underground church is a sign of spiritual health, a harbinger of renewal. To be sure, there is the possibility that these unstructured groups might coalesce into a new kind of gnostic sect-an elect that considers itself set apart from the erring mass of nominal believers. On the other hand, there is the far greater danger that institutional Christianity, without an extraordinary amount of reform, will end up as a monumental irrelevancy. Faced with a choice between the church in its present form and the underground cell, it is likely that a majority...