Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unpredictable as ever. Nonetheless, the anti-incumbent tide that is beginning to run elsewhere in the nation might hurt Humphrey, unless he can somehow shuck his identification with the Administration. In Arizona, Goldwater's presence on the ticket as a senatorial candidate should help Nixon overcome an overwhelmingly Democratic edge in voter registration. Nixon won Washington in 1960, and should do so again with help from both blue-and whitecollar areas, where concern with law and order runs deep. With Senator Mark Hatfield behind him in Oregon, Nixon is likely to pocket that state's electoral votes. With...
Oddly enough, some of the more proper Bostonians have bent over backward to try to help the flower children. Warned in advance of the invasion, Mayor Kevin H. White formed a committee of businessmen, clerics, resident hips, police and psychologists to resolve the hippies' hang...
...that as many as 3,000 Biafrans a day were dying and that total deaths might reach 2,000,000 by the end of August. Though those figures may be exaggerated, it was clear that the war's bitterness, the rigidity and suspicion on both sides, was preventing help from reaching many thousands of innocent noncombatants who are sick and dying...
...troops how to cut through the thick jungle underbrush and how to live off the land, noting once that his hunters had "managed to get two monkeys, a parrot and a dove." He determined "to write to Sartre and B. Russell to have them organize an international fund to help the Bolivian Liberation Movement." Shortly after his troops staged their first hit-and-run attack on the army, killing seven men, Che gloated: "Perhaps this is the first episode of a new Viet Nam." On his birthday, June 14, 1967, he wrote: "I have reached thirty-nine, and inexorably...
Even the little triumphs were short-lived. Bolivia's stolid Indian peasantry, whom Che expected to join the revolution, did not respond: "The mass of peasants does not help us at all and has become informers." Che watched some of his most loyal followers fall in combat, get separated from others and cut off from supplies by the army's ever-tightening clamp. "This type of struggle gives us the opportunity not only to turn ourselves into revolutionaries, the highest level of the human species, but it also allows us to graduate as men," he wrote on Aug. 8, still...