Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...embarrassing family dispute within the Administration. Some 40 attorneys working in the Civil Rights Division of Mitchell's Justice Department gathered in the apartment of one of their number. They met in an unprecedented act of rebellion to discuss a petition of protest to Attorney General Mitchell. The day before, the Justice Department had gone into federal court to retreat from the Government's previous insistence that 33 recalcitrant Mississippi school districts meet this year's deadline for desegregation-after a federal district court in Jackson, Miss., had requested that HEW draw up a plan for each...
...eight under detention, came to the CIA office in Nha Trang, explained that Chuyen had been executed, and asked for protection from "a bunch of wild men" in his outfit. The CIA agent alerted the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, which moved Smith to Saigon. General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, ordered a full-scale probe that led to the arrests. The Green Berets, according to the CIA, at first insisted that Chuyen had been sent on a mission and had simply not returned; later, some changed their tune. The CIA version does not explain...
...broken its customary silence since the arrests? Apparently out of pique at the Army. CIA men in Saigon reportedly asked General Abrams to explain publicly that the agency was not involved in the killing of Chuyen; Abrams refused. Then, in Washington, the agency turned to Army Secretary Stanley Resor, pleading at length to be let off the hook of complicity in Chuyen's death. Once more it got no satisfaction, so now it is leaking its case to the public...
...another officer put it, was that "he tried to reason with the men when the situation called for a boot in the tail." At the present stage of the war, the Song Chang incident seemed symptomatic of U.S. fatigue with the continuing bloodshed. It hardly presaged, however, any general collapse of battlefield will, as some early reactions to the report seemed to suggest. In the field, in fact, Alpha Company's travail was soon shrugged off as a curious but isolated incident born of unusual circumstances...
Last May, a military coup toppled the Sudan's civilian government, and policy toward the south began to change. There is little doubt that the southern problem is the chief concern of Major General Gaafar Mohamed Nimeri, leader of the new government. Within two weeks after taking power, he set down a four-point plan calling for southern regional autonomy, and he has ordered the army to help build up the south's economy. Addressing his troops in the south two weeks ago, he said: "Now you must carry a rifle in one hand and a tool...