Word: following
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that territory. Even a situation in which South Viet Nam was controlled exclusively by the Viet Cong, while regrettable and no doubt morally unwarranted, would not present dangers great enough to justify our direct military intervention. There is every likelihood that a Communist regime in South Viet Nam would follow a fairly independent political course...
...were other motives of greater consequence. The President wanted to galvanize the lagging pacification program in Viet Nam-and thereby show such critics as New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy that he was not ignoring the political and social aspects of the war. He was anxious to follow up the abortive peace offensive with an equally grand and, he hoped, more successful gesture. Johnson also was eager to meet and take the measure of South Viet Nam's leaders...
...Marines had cleared an area of Viet Cong in last summer's Operation Starlight, Resseguie led nearly 20,000 refugees back to their deserted homes, helped provide them with food and building material. Unfortunately, as soon as Starlight winked out, the V.C. winked back inan evidence of ineffective follow-through that has plagued pacification efforts all along...
Verbal Spanking. Judge Saypol, who last year upheld the constitutionality of the Condon-Wadlin Act, solemnly warned the authority not to follow "any course which would increase the compensation of the strikers in violation of the law." In Saypol's opinion, the issue at stake is nothing less than the very preservation of the rule of law. If laws that are disliked can be violated with impunity, then anarchy prevails and "liberties become useless," said the judge...
...carried a grimly humorous notice: "We regret to inform you that there is no Santa Claus." Crowell Collier was folding its two mass-circulation magazines, Collier's and Woman's Home Companion, and dismissing its employees. There was speculation at the time that Crowell Collier would soon follow its magazines down the drain. Instead, says Chairman Raymond C. Hagel, 49, the company has "gone through a whole life cycle in less than a decade." Last week the company announced record profits of $9,292,000 on sales...