Word: hue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have grown to epidemic proportions. Unable to find legitimate jobs, many young runaways drift into the roving life of the Honda-riding toughs known as "cowboys." The result has been a resurgence of the kind of gang crime last seen in the ragged days of the Diem regime. In Hue last month, one exasperated army commander assembled his troops and police near a banner proclaiming that "vagrants, thieves and burglars are the nemesis of society." His crackdown orders included an instruction that every cowboy arrested be given a haircut...
...vast majority, Campbell believes, the West's general lack of spiritual authority has been a disaster. Forty years in the study of eternal symbols have made Campbell a conservative of a rather dark hue. Though he is optimistic about the long range, he finds the present bleak indeed. "We have seen what has happened to primitive communities unsettled by the white man's civilization," he observes. "With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces, disintegrate, and become resorts of vice and disease. Today the same thing is happening...
From a purely military viewpoint, the Tet offensive was a major defeat for the North Vietnamese. More than 67,000 troops were committed to battle in at least 100 cities and villages, in hopes of creating a general uprising that never happened; the Communist assaults on Saigon and Hue were bloodily repulsed. But the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers were able to strike at will all over the country and penetrated Allied lines with ease. This was dramatic evidence that Westmoreland's "success offensive" and his claim of imminent victory had been greatly oversold. The impact...
...right of protest was outweighed by the Army's interest in maintaining efficiency in all units. In dissent, Judge James L. Oakes warned: "Even a very little chill on a very big right is too much. A transfer to Texas today could be a transfer to Hue tomorrow...
...Hue, students and disabled veterans staged several large demonstrations, burned Thieu posters, and hurled Molotov cocktails at the police. At one point, more than a thousand students on the old city side of the Perfume River struggled to link up with 200 others on the Hue University side. Combat police used tear gas and repeated bursts from their M-16s to break up the demonstration...