Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most prominent critics of the war simply do not understand Viet Nam or the nature of the fighting there. If the military gets around to publicly pinpointing scapegoats, it will undoubtedly cite the U.S. press. There is a widespread conviction in the armed forces that reporters have fed antiwar sentiment at home by sensationalizing the war's bloodier aspects, downgrading the South Vietnamese army, exaggerating U.S. defeats, emphasizing the negative...
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...Harkness alleged recruiting methods do little to dispel the charge. In a recent year, he deliberately fed a goaltender highly questionable information in an effort to prevent him from applying to Harvard, and several other Crimson hockey players have related similar incidents of Harkness' "negative recruiting...
...Albuquerque in mid-1966, a month before his mother's death, he enlisted in the Army. Once in uniform, he was soon recommended for officer candidate school, commissioned a lieutenant and posted to Viet Nam. His elder sister. Mrs. Marian Keesling, of Gainesville, Fla., reports that Calley clothed and fed a little Vietnamese girl; one day he returned to find the child's house bombed and the girl missing. "He was pretty broken up about the child," says Mrs. Keesling...
Meanwhile, Mr. Stack fed me statistics. 7600 members. Lunch served to 700 to 800 daily. Liquor inventory of $40,000, including 75 varieties of wine. 1000 pop-overs baked each day. 250 squash-players per month. I asked if I could see the squash courts. Mr. Stack bent down and replied in a quiet voice that it wouldn't be possible for me to go upstairs because the men would be in their... um... you know, birthday suits...