Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure of U.S. intelligence in anticipating the scope of the Communist move at a time when such attacks clearly should have been anticipated. No one of course believed that half a million U.S. troops could be defeated by the enemy in Viet Nam; but there was considerable fear that they had been spread entirely too thin over too many crisis areas to be effective. While the U.S. and its allies officially reported 40,000 enemy soldiers killed since the Tet offensive began at the beginning of the lunar New Year, some U.S. officers in Saigon reckoned the losses...
...fighting of the week. Seven miles west of the capital, U.S. 25th Infantrymen killed 128 Communists in a firefight, and less than a mile from the Chinese quarter of Cholon, ARVN Rangers killed 48 Viet Cong. Tan Son Nhut airport remained a major target for shelling, and there was fear that General William Westmoreland may not have sufficient troops to defend his own MACV headquarters there against a concerted enemy thrust. Aside from their military aims, the Communists may also be attempting to cut off Saigon and strangle it economically...
...disillusioned Executive Committee member blamed the club's impotence on those who view the organization as a stepping stone for future political careers. "They range from pseudo-new-Leftists in grey flannel suits to those who would be in SDS, but are too timid to affiliate with it for fear of hurting their budding political careers," he said. "Reluctant to voice any effective platform, they present a generalized liberal view centered entirely around elections, with no conception of extra-political social means of bringing about change. It never occurred to any of these ultra-pragmatic liberals to get involved with...
...Thanh, a former finance minister in the government of Premiere Diem, a former finance minister again in the civilian government of Dr. Quaht, probably the single most respected non-government civilian leader in the country, a man who was barred from running for the presidency probably because of the fear that he would have been elected...
...British Parliament, the seat of government for Britain's 98% white population. Yet there it was last week. Tory M.P. Duncan Sandys, a former Colonial Secretary, called for "immediate legislation to curtail the influx of immigrants into Britain." Enoch Powell, a onetime Tory Minister of Health, expressed the fear that Britain's simmering race problem "will at the end of the century be similar in magnitude to that...