Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reuther said that up to 600,000 members of the U.A.W. would be available in their spare time to help repair the ravages. General Motors offered its "skills, facilities and resources" to help rebuild the city. To be sure, some would just as soon see it remain in ruins. "We'll burn this place down again," said one rioter. "We'll burn down this whole stinking town." With money and muscle, Detroit is now staking its future on the proposition that most of its people-black as well as white-would much rather build than burn...
...field. In the ARVN, a division commands only two artillery battalions v. the four available to an American division. U.S. air and artillery do back up the Vietnamese forces, of course, but Americans naturally support their own forces first, and there can be long delays before help comes for a beleaguered government force...
...Help. The big unknown is the Negro vote. Negro registration has surged from 30,000 to 194,000 since 1963, and 120 Negroes are running for office-making it likely that Mississippi soon will have its first black sheriffs and legislators since Reconstruction. White registration, however, rose by 140,000 during the same period...
...from top to bottom," as Ky puts it. One proposal would disband the four corps commands and the ten divisions, with their tempting opportunities for warlord graft and corruption, and create more flexible units that would specialize in pacification efforts, counterguerrilla action, and search-and-destroy missions. With U.S. help, General Vien has launched several new training programs designed to help soldiers learn everything from setting guerrilla-style ambushes to assisting villagers in building pigpens...
...candidates will have the opportunity to speak on the same day in each of 23 towns, and the candidates will be ferried from place to place in a fleet of airplanes provided by the government. Saigon has also allotted each candidate $50,000 from a special election fund to help cover expenses (though hardly enough to conduct a national campaign), has allotted each candidate an equal number of posters and will also give each campaigner equal time on radio and TV to address the country...