Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toughs. The "lost youth" are younger, less adept. Says a free-clinic nurse: "There are more misfits now, more who can't make it." The "Haight types," with beards and beads, were found to have been disenchanted enough to "split to a Zen monastery." As for the "indigenous-leadership cluster," Methedrine addicts have replaced the work-oriented Diggers and driven them...
...Army of South Viet Nam (ARVN). We had problems in almost every possible category of military activity when I first came here. The ARVN had problems in training, leadership, equipment, personnel and logistics. All of these either have been eliminated or are well on the road to elimination. In fact, the ARVN has become an effective fighting organization, as it well demonstrated during the Tet offensive and in numerous actions since...
...greatest source of difficulty for government and military planners right now is the uncertainly surrounding the actual plans of the Campaign's leadership, Ralph D. Abernathy's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In marked contrast to the organizers of last fall's militant anti-war demonstration here, SCLC officials have made no prolonged efforts towards arriving at agreement with Federal officials over such matters as tactics and sites for demonstrations in the Capital...
...critical question is whether or not the marchers will observe such restrictions as this one once they arrivein Washington. If the marchers' leadership should decide to build their shantytown on the Mall, even if denied a permit to do so, then the Government would have to decide whether to use force on the marchers. And if such a decision is not forced upon the Government over the campsite issue, it may still come at any time afterward, over the non-violent civil disobedience which Abernathy has forecast for the Campaign...
Meanwhile, liberal Congressmen such as Michigan's Conyers and California's Edwards expect that this march will be no more violent than the peaceful 1963 crusade. But the SCLC leadership has so far kept its distance from the Congressional liberals and thus far the liberals' predictions are not much more than hopes...