Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What Withdrawal Would Really Mean" [Oct. 24], you keep referring to "our defeat" in Viet Nam. I can't recall one operation there that was a military defeat for U.S. forces. For years now V.C. and N.V.A. troops have operated with complete freedom from staging areas in Laos, Cambodia and the DMZ, only to be decimated once they fielded forces in R.V.N. Our forces have allowed the enemy to stockpile vast amounts of food, weapons and ordnance, and once feeling the full capacity reached, moved in to capture and destroy these stores. Our forces, according to General Giap...
...after him with a meat ax." Av Westin, executive producer of the ABC evening news, puts the industry's case in its best possible light. "My politics are more conservative than Vice President Agnew would have people believe, but that doesn't matter. My job is to keep my politics and those of others off the air. You can't always be objective because you bring your experiences to things-so you try to be fair. We are on guard. We're not infallible...
...Mobe organizers were indeed attempting to minimize trouble, Justice yielded on Pennsylvania Avenue?the capital's traditional parade route?but insisted that the line of march turn south before reaching the front of the White House. The New Mobe also designated about 3,000 march marshals to help keep order. The motivation was not entirely altruistic. Violence would impeach the entire peace movement, supporting the argument that to be antiwar is to be anti-America...
...soldier proffered his hat: we pulled up close and accepted it. We fell behind again. My friend asked the soldiers, in sign language, if they wanted to smoke. They nodded enthusiastically. As we pulled up again, he climbed out the window; we had to hold his legs to keep him from falling out. He lost his Army cap to the wind-but the soldier got the joint. We jumped up and down in our seats; everybody cheered. Then we passed their truck, and we never saw them again...
Then a marshal lit my candle, and my new project was to keep it going until I said goodbye to Tinsley. I didn't succeed despite constant practice at those Christmas candlelight services. My candle burned faster than anyone else's, and it became clear that I would be lucky if the candle lasted the length of the walk...