Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week pointing them out. Though its overall findings were well received, there were irate charges that the com mission had failed to condemn those responsible for the rioting last summer, and that the report's Armageddon tone was overly dramatic. But the most damaging gaffe by the eleven-member commission may turn out to have been something far more simple and personal: its disregard for President Johnson and what he has accomplished...
...stockpiled in Viet Nam, and this is a war too." Houston Police Chief Herman Short called the commission's criti cism "ridiculous," adding: "The stockpiling of heavy weapons wouldn't mean anything to anybody if everybody obeyed the law." Atlanta Police Chief Herbert Jenkins, one of the eleven commissioners, took exception to his colleagues' complaints about the report. "I'll buy it, I stand with it, I fall with it," said Jenkins...
...that the Communists were idle. At South Viet Nam's southern tip, the Viet Cong slashed into the town of Ca Mau, seized the provincial hospital and held it for eleven hours before finally being driven out, leaving 275 of their dead behind. North Vietnamese troops wiped out a small U.S.-South Vietnamese camp only six miles from Danang, but U.S. troopers, with the aid of air and artillery, caught and killed 129 of the Communists south of the city. U.S. Marine and ARVN troopers, sweeping northeast of the DMZ Marine supply base of Dong Ha, found a battalion...
Nearly a third of the world's people live in the great arc of eleven nations that stretches beneath the southern rim of Russia and China. From Pakistan to Indonesia, the countries of South Asia seem, however, to have more than two-thirds of the world's problems: grinding poverty, ruinous population growth, feeble economies, the burden of colonial pasts and, in Southeast Asia, armed Communist aggressors. In a new book published this week, Asian Drama, Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal suggests that the bulk of South Asia's troubles lie not so much in history or lack...
...campus courts are so firmly established that when a faculty committee tried to discipline eleven students accused of interfering with Dow Chemical recruiters last November, the student outcry persuaded the university to hand the cases back to the student judiciary. As a result, the university created a special commission to draft policy on demonstrations; typically, it includes six student members...