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...position of protesting that the U.S. had been guilty of the very same thing. Complaining that American planes had bombed a Russian ship berthed in a North Vietnamese port 50 miles up the coast from Haiphong-a charge denied by the Defense Department-Moscow formally accused the U.S. of "flagrant violation of the freedom of navigation...
...buffer zone between the two countries. No troops were to enter this so-called Demilitarized Zone, which averages three miles in width on either side of the Ben Hai River frontier. Hanoi has long regarded the DMZ as a convenient, protected freeway for infiltrating its soldiers into the South. Flagrant though that violation was, in recent months Hanoi has done far more: it has turned the DMZ into a giant staging area and mortar and artillery base for its buildup against the U.S. Marines facing the zone. In almost a month of continuous fighting just south...
...Court ordered "all deliberate speed" toward school desegregation, the Deep South has deliberately dallied. Even today in some states, fewer than 6% of Negro students attend classes with whites. Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in New Orleans, finally made clear that it will not tolerate flagrant evasion...
...underdog when it came to running his union. Hoffa ruthlessly crushed opposition, demanded total obedience from his officers. His iron-fisted rule led him into questionable associations with gangsters, shady deals with employers and flagrant misuse of union funds. Bobby Kennedy, who as counsel for the Senate rackets committee and later as Attorney General showed that he could be as rough an infighter as Hoffa, called his handling of the union a "conspiracy of evil." So fierce was the enmity between Hoffa and Kennedy that special police guards were assigned to Bobby after Hoffa's imprisonment, as protection against...
...reason is that any full-time civilian department devoted to the dark arts of espionage is remarkably new to the U.S. Until Pearl Harbor, American espionage was essentially the property of the military services. The Japanese sneak attack was one of history's most flagrant failures of applied foreknowledge, Sun Tzu-style. To fill the vacuum, the Office of Strategic Services was hastily constituted during World War II, and it was from this agency that CIA evolved into a permanent peacetime department under the 1947 National Security...