Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bitterness & Frustration. Westmoreland's friends are already saying that he was overdirected from Washington and forced to fight a war on the cheap. The general himself is known to be bitter about the flak from home and frustrated by what he thinks has been a letdown in support from the Administration. The timing of last week's announcement is not likely to mollify him. Not only did it occur at a juncture when the allies are on the defensive, but, coming so early, it may pull the commander's punch. "Why the hell did they announce...
...shares Bundy's views (just as John Kennedy did). These views are that we should use our power abroad wherever and however we can, provided we can get away with it; that we should support our financial interests abroad even by miltary means; and that we should discourage and fight all forms of communism to whatever extent it is practical to do so--even if this means supporting right-wing dictatorships and working against all revolutionary forces throughout the underdeveloped world. This was John Kennedy's policy, and we have every reason to believe that it is Robert Kennedy...
...want to go to Washington to fight for more jobs, better schools, more federal money for all our people," pledged Charles Evers, as he stumped his Mississippi district seeking its congressional seat. Carrying his fight to the people via TV, the brother of murdered Medgar Evers insisted: "I want to represent all the people of Mississippi." But the face on the tube was black, and in deepest Dixie, Evers was defeating himself. The votes came flooding in last week to a patently predictable...
...presence in Laos, open and covert, is aimed at maintaining the uneasy balance of forces in Laos. To that end, the U.S. provides most of the money for the government's budget, and enough military aid to keep the 70,000-man Laotian forces equipped to fight...
...issue, Trappist Monk Thomas Merton, author of The Seven Storey Mountain, writes about an early Mesoamerican civilization that survived from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 900 without a single war. So attuned to their environment were its members, so at peace with themselves, that they simply felt no need to fight, nor their neighbors to fight with them. Here, says Merton, was a Utopian existence that was not mere fantasy...