Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing else, Burger's appointment should act to quiet the more strident critics. Southerners like James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will be less likely to claim, as he once did, that the court is "the greatest single threat to our Constitution." Even Eastland might find it hard to reverse his judgment of last week, which called Burger "an outstanding jurist and a very fine...
...university administrators began to realize toward week's end that they had miscalculated. Their hard-line decision to forcibly evict the street people from the park, which led to the military occupation, had backfired. In effect, they had relinquished their freedom of action to the police and troopers. Chancellor Heyns, who earlier had refused to compromise university control of the tract, now indicated that he might negotiate. The university issued conciliatory statements, and Heyns asked for removal of non-university police from the campus. A substantial number of police left the university grounds, and arrests in that area dropped...
Battle Plans. The police are moving in a number of ways to prevent violence. Programs of varying size and efficacy to improve police relations with the ghettos have been started in most cities. Los Angeles' hard-line chief Tom Reddin has left police work for television. Recruiting, particularly of black policemen, has been stepped up. Washington has added 500 men to its 3,600-member force and plans to add another 500. One hundred and forty of the latest 1,000 graduates of the New York Police Academy are black...
...quickly ran, as Specialist Four Jimmy Speers recalled, "into garbage": rocket grenades, fire from automatic weapons, lethal Claymore mines dangling from bushes and trees. The American attackers were forced to pull back. An assault by two companies on May 13 was also repulsed by the North Vietnamese. Honeycutt, a hard-nosed commander who often walks the point (the exposed forward position in a formation) with his battalion, did not give up. On May 14 the battalion, trying again, nearly made the top of the hill. But while Honeycutt, whose radio code name is "Black Jack," radioed, "Get up off your...
...questions are vital, but the answers are hard to come by. Though the Communists are fully aware of the domestic pressures in the U.S. to settle the war, and try to manipulate American public opinion to their own advantage, the American negotiators have only the scantiest information about the mood of North Viet Nam or how that mood might affect the Communists' bargaining position. About all that U.S. policymakers can do is ponder the clues that slip out of Ho Chi Minh's secretive land by means of foreign visitors, an occasional defector, and the North...