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They seem willing to take enormous casualties in largely futile military thrusts in the hope of creating enough havoc-and enough headlines-to improve their bargaining position. They are also interested in keeping American casualty rates high: last week Saigon announced that 562 Americans had died in the week ending May 11, a record weekly total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The High Cost Of Maintaining Appearances | 5/24/1968 | See Source »

...gained support from the majority of Columbia students because they took the mass of students over to something and something street and let them see the 30-30 rifle. In trying to take over, they had taken the man's advice. 1000 of New York's finest caused enough havoc to create America's finest example yet of white student power...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Columbia: From Resistance to Insurgency | 5/6/1968 | See Source »

KENYA'S Asians are caught in a racial squeeze play: Black Africa wants them out and White Britain refuses to let them in. The panicked scramble to get to England before last month's passage of Britain's Commonwealth Immigration Act left the Asians embittered and confused, created havoc in Kenya's economy, and doomed prospects for good race relations within Britain. All three races--Brown, Black, and White--are responsible for the crisis...

Author: By Franklin D. Chu, | Title: Asians Panic | 4/24/1968 | See Source »

Shouting "Stoned! Stoned!" his listeners surged forward, clawing at the kicking feet of the policemen who ringed the footlights. After the performance, they shredded curtains, ripped doors off their hinges, and generally wreaked the worst havoc on the Music Hall since it was battered three years ago by the Beatles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Wild, Woolly & Wicked | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...areas that run from north to south, plus the special capital zone of Saigon and surrounding Gia Dinh province. Last week TIME sent a team of five correspondents from its Saigon bureau, one to each of the corps areas and the capital zone, to find out just how much havoc the Communist at tacks had wrought, and what the allies are doing to repair it. Their reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: AFTER TET: MEASURING AND REPAIRING DAMAGE | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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