Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supply convoy due to move through, elements of "the Big Red One" wandered unknowingly into a major Viet Cong troop concentration. It took the efforts of three full battalions to blast out the entrenched V.C., and much of the fighting was at close quarters-where accidents can happen...
...held no grudges. "The 1st Division called in the air strikes close because this was close combat," he said. "This is a rough business. When you're only off by 50 meters and the planes are going 150 or 200 miles an hour, these things are going to happen." Added DePuy: "I would ask for the strikes again in the same situation. We would have lost a lot more than we lost to the napalm if we had tried to winkle them out of those bunkers alone...
...than the ones made by 22,000 Transport Workers Union machinsts employed by Pan Am and American Airlines. Under pressure to outdo the rival I.A.M. machinists, the T.W.U. has since July deadlocked contract negotiations with obstinate calls for a 30% wage hike and ghoulish threats of what may happen if their demands are not met. Said one T.W.U. official last week...
Partially because she is not yet widely known, no one gives Colonel Briggs much of a chance to unseat Claiborne Pell. Still, some pretty unusual things have happened to Ruth Briggs in her career-and could happen again. Among the first WACs to be sent overseas, she quickly found herself in charge of a packed lifeboat after her ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean-and the senior British officer in the lifeboat became seasick. "Being a Rhode Islander," she explains, "I've been around small boats all my life...
...wonders what would happen if the Jews and the Irish, the Italians and Chinese all followed Carmichael's philosophy and set up para-governments which worked for their particular racial and ethnic interests. Isn't that exactly what the Democratic system tries to avoid with a system of cross-cutting pressure groups. Obviously the American system has failed with the Negro minority, but is an intensified ghetto the answer...