Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Except for Hué, the most serious city fighting was in Saigon. Once a gracious, languid island in the midst of war, Saigon last week was a city rimmed by fear. Every half-hour the radio grimly warned: "The Saigon-Cholon area is not considered secure. Firefights and sniper fire are expected to continue. Do not travel on foot. All vehicles must have an armed escort." Flak-jacketed American MPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. Trigger-happy police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching checkpoints and barricades strung about the city. Tough...
...units to $100 million, also reversed his opposition to an antiriot bill to punish those who cross state lines to incite strife. In addition, the message pledged the Justice Department's cooperation with state and local police. Said Johnson: "You don't have to remember any name except Clark-Ramsey Clark. He's the man to phone...
...Judas Rat." The odd thing is that, except for the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia, Galbraith has few complaints about Lyndon Johnson. "He's put all the right things on the plate in his domestic program, and apart from Viet Nam, he's been imaginative and flexible in his foreign policy," he says. Until the war, the two men, both from poor, rural backgrounds, were good friends. "I like him more and more," Galbraith said of the then Vice Pres ident in 1961. "He is genuinely intelligent and wants to do things." Despite his affection for Jack Kennedy, Galbraith...
...river, despite the fact that the allies held both bridgeheads. Boats thus became the main means of evacuation and supply, and each boat ran a gauntlet of NVA sniper fire. But at week's end the NVA pockets of resistance were slowly shrinking, and all of the city except a part of the Citadel had been seized by the allies...
...dash for cover is part of every man's routine. "It's a modus vivendi," says Protestant Chaplain Ray Stubbe, 29. "The men run for shelter, but they don't cringe when they get there." Except for an occasional case of what the corpsmen call "acute environmental reaction" (shell shock), the Marines at Khe Sanh are taking their ordeal with considerable composure. Only their unwelcome bunkermates-the rats-be come frantic under fire. When the "in coming" starts, the rats race for the bunkers and wildly run up to the ceilings made of runway matting and logs...