Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dispatching even 100,000 extra men would not simply be "more of the same" but would cause a qualitative change in the war. It would probably force Lyndon Johnson to mobilize the reserves, call up the National Guard, increase the draft, and put the economy on a full war footing-all unpleasant options in an election year. Withholding the troops, on the other hand, could force the U.S. to abandon for good the tactics of flexibility and mobility that long kept the enemy off balance, and shift instead to a static, enclave-style stance...
...centralization by permitting low-level cadre to adopt broad party policy to local problems Premier Pham Van Dong and President Ho are well aware of the dangers of applying party principles inflexibly. In interviews with visiting European communists last summer, Pham emphasized that the regime was taking measures to guard against creeping bureaucratization. He and Ho have had some near disastrous experiences dictating indiscriminately from the top. Hanoi's rigid land reform program of 1955-56 produced a revolt in Ho's home province in November...
...Senior guard Jeff Grate had 14 points, six rebounds and several defensive steals. This was the last game for him, captain Bobby Beller and Jim Griswold...
...freshman game, Harvard won 60-56 oin the strength of 6-8 center George Yates's 24 points. Featuring a 6-2 guard from New York, Dale Dover, and two or three other varsity prospects, the freshmen wound up the season...
...attempting to integrate a segregated business establishment. But the scene was Orangeburg, South Carolina--not Greensboro or Selma--and the climax of the demonstration sounded grimly like the outcome of the summer riots: three South Carolina State students dead and more than 60 wounded by the police and National Guard...