Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible Administration objective, wiping out the Communists below the 17th parallel would involve unthinkable costs and dangers. Even to defeat the 230,000-man Communist force in the South today would probably require at least one million American troops, according to Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times and several Pentagon officials; most military strategists insist that a 10 to 1 ration manpower is essential for the success of search-and-destroy operations...
...there will be more adults than students on the march, said J. Robert Hanson of Massachusetts Political Action for Peace (PAX), the New England coordinators for the march...
...This is to be a dignified, sober, middle-class march, not just a protest," Hanson explained. "Our goal is a negotiated settlement in Vietnam, and we will attempt to offer constructive alternatives to the present U.S. policy," he added...
Behind this transformation is Ocean Spray of Hanson, Mass., which produces 85% of all the cranberries grown in the world, has annual sales of $46 million. Ocean Spray is a cooperative that distributes its earnings to a pool of 1,000 growers in Massachusetts (where the sandy-bottomed bogs of Cape Cod prove most hospitable to the berry), New Jersey, Wisconsin, Oregon and Washington State. Formed by a series of mergers in 1930, it has taken much of the risk and uncertainty out of cranberry growing, this fall paid growers $13.99 a barrel for the 1.2 million barrels that their...
...suppose that the U.S. actually succeeded in "pacifying" South Vietnam. What then? The remaining Viet Cong could fade back among the people and wait for opportunities to strike. It would be impossible to seal hermetically the borders from further guerrilla infiltration. Hanson Baldwin has estimated that a perpetual police force of as many as 250,000 soldiers would be required to keep the country "in order." The economy would be in shambles from years of devastation; thousands would be without food. Hostility among the population would force the U.S. to rely on familiar cliques of embattled generals, out of touch...