Word: hopefull
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The most hopeful estimate of the recent lack of pattern in Communist strategy is that Hanoi's aims are being consistently thwarted. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese took heavy casualties at Tet and during the May offensive. Allied forces claim to have killed more than 13,000 Communist...
Spoiling Tactics. General Abrams has abandoned the tactics of his predecessor, General William Westmoreland, who made wide use of brigade and even division-size sweeps that sometimes left rear areas exposed. Instead, Abrams has developed a more flexible, diversified approach that employs smaller roving units. They can watch over more...
Nonetheless, Humphrey professed to see nothing but hopeful portents. "A good number of the dissidents have come back," he said. "I think we'll have a pretty good united front." Indeed, some key supporters of Eugene McCarthy, including former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell and California Assembly Speaker Jesse...
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS (Columbia, two LPs). Brel writes and sings in French, but his approach to life travels well. He attacks indifference, loneliness and unhappiness the way a windmill attacks the air, stirring up little tempests with whirring music and sharp imagery. Juxtaposing...
The first Czechoslovak party boss, Klement Gottwald, was a harsh ruler. He nationalized the country's entire industry, including even small artisans' shops, collectivized all farms, and subjected the people to a withering succession of arrests, show trials and executions of "Titoists" and "traitors." Fittingly, Gottwald caught a chill at...