Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent announcement that the United States will increase its commitment in Vietnam to the Korean-war level of 400,000 men by this Spring indicates that the Administration is losing hope of negotiations. Moderate critics of the war, such as Senators Kennedy and Mansfield, were still issuing pleas for stronger diplomatic initiatives last week, but because of the increasingly polarized views on either side, no grounds exist for any satisfactory agreement...
...formidable as any he has ever faced, the U.S. fighting man in South Viet Nam has already proved in battle that he is a disciplined and deadly adversary. "These guys are better trained and better led than ever before," says Sergeant Grady Trainor, a World War II and Korean veteran with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. In part, as Johnson points out, the proficiency of today's G.I. is a product of higher educational levels: 75% of all enlisted men are high school graduates v. 48% in 1952; the same percentage of officers have college degrees. In part, also...
...followed her Korean mother to a ramshackle bar and discovered that her mother was for sale to U.S. servicemen. On the way home, alone, the little girl had an even more traumatic experience: a man lured her into an alley and assaulted her. At eight, she learned why classmates jeered "half-caste!" at her: her father had been a white G.I. At 16, she was a full-fledged prostitute working among American soldiers who liked her slim Occidental legs and ample breasts...
...majority of these children are the offspring of white G.I.s. Finding foster parents for Negro-fathered children is much harder. With that in mind, the Pearl S. Buck Foundation began operating in Korea just last month. Its initial hopes are modest: to provide funds directly to mothers of Negro-Korean children so that the little lost half-castes will have at least some chance of growing up with enough food to eat in homes of their...
This strategy was never tried on the national level. Instead, the Republicans nominated General Eisenhower. And in California, as practically everywhere else, Ike's personal appeal and apparent ability to end the Korean War, produced an over-whelming Republican victory. But during Eisenhower's two terms as President, both the liberal and conservative strategies flopped badly on the state level...