Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the groundswell of pessimism. An unremitting stream of TV clips and still photographs-such as LIFE'S classic shot of wounded U.S. Marines stacked aboard a tank in Hue-daily underscored the war's horror. Since the widespread attacks began on Jan. 31, the U.S. has lost an average of 500 men a week, pushing the overall casualty total-Americans killed in action or wounded-since the beginning of 1961 above Korean War totals...
Despite its worthy intentions, the President's Commission on Civil Disorders made several tactical errors in its report on the causes and cure of Negro rioting - and critics lost no time last week pointing them out. Though its overall findings were well received, there were irate charges that the com mission had failed to condemn those responsible for the rioting last summer, and that the report's Armageddon tone was overly dramatic. But the most damaging gaffe by the eleven-member commission may turn out to have been something far more simple and personal: its disregard for President...
Sporadic cries of "Lo, the poor Indian!" have been raised ever since the red man lost his wars against the U.S. cavalry. Johnson's document, however, was the first presidential message ever to deal specifically with the subject. The President requested $500 million in federal programs, a boost of 10% over present outlays, to help "provide a standard of living for Indians equal to that of the country as a whole." Items would cover 10,000 Indian children under Head Start, set up a "model community school system," pay for 2,500 new houses a year, allocate $112 million...
...which more isolated province capitals have grown accustomed. Most businesses have reopened, but stocks are low. The western one-third of the Chinese quarter of Cholon is still insecure at night, the work of several hundred Viet Cong who are still holed up around the race track. Saigon lost, it is now estimated, 6,300 civilians during the fighting; another 11,000 were wounded...
...manual work; submissiveness to authority and exploitation; low aptitude for cooperation." The last, Myrdal notes ironically, is a legacy from Gandhi and other Asians who led the fight against colonialism by preaching noncooperation with authority. The battle for independence was won, but now the war for progress is being lost in part because of a noncooperation hangover...