Word: level
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive the last of the North Vietnamese out of the ancient Citadel. At Khe Sanh, the pressure mounted on the waiting U.S. Marines, who underwent one of the most concentrated barrages of the war-1,307 rounds of shells in one five-hour stretch. Having promised to level Saigon in a "second wave" of attacks on South Viet Nam's cities, the Communists kept up a steady drumfire of rockets and mortars on the capital. And the U.S. command announced that for the week ending Feb. 17, a record number of 543 Americans died in combat, bringing...
...into the Citadel. At week's end this position was threatened by allied forces advancing on the Citadel from the west. For mobility within the city, the Communist troops found a second, more cunning conduit. They crawled through sewer lines beneath the city that led up to street level behind allied lines. Time and again, Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the advancing U.S. armor. Sometimes a tank lurched, then treaded wildly through brick walls at streetside, where its crew, one or two of them wounded, would jump from the hatch; another crew would be immediately called...
...emerged a generally workable system that breaks down on some spectacular occasions but in the main serves the cause of both sides as well as the public good. Not so in the crucially important and rapidly expanding public sector, which embraces everyone who works for government at any level-federal, state, county and municipal-and embodies every conceivable skill, from schoolteaching to garbage disposal. In that area, labor relations are in a primitive stage...
...California, too, there is trouble between educators and the governor-this time at college level. Governor Ronald Reagan is once again coming under academic fire for his cost-cutting budgetary policies. Last year, regents and administrators of the University of California reluctantly went along with a Reagan-proposed $13 million cut in requested operating funds as an emergency measure. In January, the Governor proposed a $280 million budget for the university next year, or $31 million less than the request submitted by University President Charles J. Hitch. The regents-including several who sided with Reagan last year-are fighting hard...
Inflation Equation. According to Commerce Department figures, retail sales in January increased 3% over December and almost 6% over January 1967. Housing starts were up 16.3% in January, the sixth increase in seven months. Total personal income inched up to an alltime record, a seasonally adjusted annual level of $651.2 billion. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell to 3.5% in January, its lowest level in 14 years. Equally buoyant are the latest corporate-earnings reports. Surveying 581 companies, the Wall Street Journal found that their total profits during 1967's fourth quarter had increased 5.2% over a year earlier...