Word: fight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon expert. "Do you realize that is two field armies? They send those boys down south and they never come back. And they're doing no better in the war." One U.S. observer insisted that Hanoi can rely on only six of every ten men sent south to fight; the rest defect, including an even larger number of North Vietnamese civilian administrators, or melt into the jungle. The growing rate of defections, moreover, leads to better allied intelligence-a major factor in recent months in blunting Communist offensives...
...PHRASEMAKER. My friends, in calling for law and order, we must not stop the fight to combat despair. We must stand for a hand up, not a handout...
Unmet Needs. Bob Kennedy had scarcely begun his fight to change the condition of the poor. Last week his widow, sisters and surviving brother established a memorial that they hope will accomplish some of what he sought to do. On the sloping back lawn of the Robert Kennedy home in McLean, Va., the family announced its plan for a Robert F. Kennedy memorial foundation. "We hope to form several task-force groups," said Edward Kennedy, "and to enlist the young. It is a most appropriate memorial-a living memorial -to carry on his concern, compassion and interest in the unmet...
...dais, they can readily appear as delicate and inconsequential as so many songbirds. In fact, Vietnamese women are birds of a very different feather. Heiresses of an ancient tradition of matriarchy, they have become, under the pressures of two decades of war, Asia's most emancipated women. They fight, politic, run businesses and their families and, through their husbands, probably control much of South Viet Nam's endemic corruption...
...other side of the solution involves the blacks' search to think for themselves. The desire for courses in black history, the political and economic awareness spreading in the ghetto, the black banks, local control of schools--all these, Cleaver would say, are efforts by black people to fight off a feeling of mental impotence which is just as serious as the white alienation from its body...