Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class will soon start the cheerily commercial annual countdown of shopping days till Christmas. For the unemployed in urban ghettos, it is the season of petty thievery as they seek to provide presents for their children too. A militant civil rights organization in St. Louis wants to put an end to all that and has started a leaflet and poster campaign aimed at the poor with the message: STOP STEALING FOR CHRISTMAS...
...letter sent to Ho Chi Minh before the North Vietnamese President's death. "No progress whatever has been made," Nixon reported grimly, "except agreement on the shape of the bargaining table." The more support he got at home, he said, the sooner he could redeem his pledge "to end the war in a way that we could win the peace...
...television speech, he said that things were looking better in Viet Nam than they had in June. That was when he declared that he hoped to beat a timetable proposed by ex-Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, who called for withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops by the end of next year. Privately, Nixon told a group of Republican Congressmen last week that nearly all U.S. troops will probably be out of combat before the November 1970 elections. Whether or not he can bring about that result, the President made one unassailable observation on television about his "plan for peace...
...Washington headquarters of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, which is helping to sponsor the renewed demonstrations this week, the response to Nixon's speech was: "We told you so." Said John C. Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary and a protest leader: "President Nixon gave us nothing...
Lindsay was able to outspend and outorganize his opponents. In television debates, he easily outclassed Procaccino, the early favorite in the campaign. The mayor was able to attract the active support of liberal elements of both major parties. In the end, many Jews found that, despite their earlier hostility to Lindsay, they could not vote for either the academically conservative Marchi or the bellicose, volatile Procaccino...