Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience of Williams arid others suggests that the majority of veterans return to civilian life at roughly the status they left it. Despite the tremendous impact of the war on national life, the country as a whole has managed to maintain a peacetime psychology. Prosperity, rather than his military service, assures the typical veteran of a job. Most of those who end up in college or vocational training programs would probably have had the same opportunity without Viet Nam. It has been a nasty, inglorious war that most Americans did not understand and would prefer to forget. Of necessity, some...
...feel I'm more mature since coming over here. I got more responsibility-'cause it's my own ass I've gotta protect." If he succeeds at that task, his happiness at getting out alive will probably conquer whatever bitterness that Viet Nam may have left. "When you're flying home you feel like crying 'cause they got it so beautiful back there," he says. "Someday it will all be over...
...grip of the decade's worst ghetto riot. He was one of three policemen who, with state troopers and National Guardsmen, rushed into the Algiers Motel seeking a reported sniper. They rounded up nine young Negro men and two teen-age white prostitutes. When the lawmen left, three of the Negroes were dead. August admitted shotgunning Auburey Pollard, 19, but claimed self-defense. He was charged with first-degree murder. Last week an all-white jury took the white patrolman's word...
...Labor organization. The party split over the 1966 gubernatorial nomination, then lost the election. The Humphrey-McCarthy rivalry last year helped the process along. Naftalin, a Humphrey protege 25 years ago, declined to run for a fifth two year term this year, and his withdrawal created a vacuum that left many voters without allegiance to any commanding personality...
...outcome was clear, "just the way a defeated presidential candidate does in the U.S." Nonetheless, he felt it his duty to campaign as hard as he could, and campaign he did. During a hastily organized blitz of twelve cities and towns, he pushed the cause of a revived center-left government and an end to Gaullism. Poher hit hard at the large state-security apparatus built up by De Gaulle, but still refused to deal directly with many other issues. In riposte, Pompidou's supporters noted dryly that as a Senator, Poher had not opposed creation of the state...