Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey, whose position lies somewhere between McCarthy's and the Administration's, wound up saying nothing during the platform fight. But his aides sought to win acceptance of a moderate plank, along the lines of one carpentered by Theodore Sorensen, former speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy. The effort failed, ironically, when two other former Kennedy men, representing the McCarthy and McGovern camps, forced Sorensen to agree to a more dovish statement than Hum phrey was likely to approve. During a daylong hassle, Sorensen clashed repeatedly with McCarthy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin and Pierre Salinger, a McGovern aide...
...fire or set torches to their clothes. "Mop-up" soldiers raped women, sometimes lined up whole villages to be shot. The Ibos concluded that the Hausa tribesmen fully intended to use the war to systematically exterminate them. This fear, more than anything else, has hardened the Biafran determination to fight on to the end. "We shall all return to our villages and homes, if necessary behind enemy lines, and torment and harass them at every turn," says Ojukwu...
...reduction dropped the economy's key interest rate below the crisis level, highest since 1929, to which the Reserve Board pushed it last April in its effort to fight inflation and steady the international standing of the dollar. The new rate applied initially only to the Minneapolis Reserve Bank, which requested the cut in the amount it charges member commercial banks for borrowed funds. Normally, the other eleven district Reserve Banks soon fall into line with such shifts, but this time there were signs of dissent and delay. The key New York Federal Reserve Bank, which frequently takes...
...flew guns one trip and baby food the next," he recalls with a chuckle. And he sees no irony in the combination. "They (the Nigerians) are offering the Biafrans a choice between starvation and massacre, and the Biafrans need something to fight both...
...Nigerians and Biafrans are still the principal parties, and that doesn't make for a neat war. "Their psychology is different. We'd fight harder if we knew we'd be cut up into little pieces if we were captured, but they figure on putting a little fear into the other side," he says. Last April, McGuire helped to ferry Col. "Black Jack" Schramme's white mercenaries out of the Congo to Rwanda, and he says that even the mercenaries, by some accounts the most unpleasant white men around--felt a little bitterness at the African fighting style. "They...