Word: lower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carefully explained in Guam before jetting on to Manila, he intended to signal a reduction in the American military commitment to Asia. Above all, Nixon wants no more Viet Nams, and he has formulated new guidelines for U.S. policy designed to prevent any recurrence. His proposal: a "lower profile" for the U.S. in Asia (see following story). At stop after stop, Nixon reiterated what he told Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos: "Peace in Asia cannot come from the U.S. It must come from Asia. The people of Asia, the governments of Asia-they are the ones who must lead...
...scene of an accident. Still, District Attorney Edmund Dinis was apparently so annoyed by criticism of his office's handling of the case that last week he belatedly sought an inquiry, taking the unusual step of asking the state superior court to begin a formal inquest. Normally the lower district court conducts inquests...
...growing U.S. preoccupation with the "Vietnamization" of the war. American commanders are spending twice as much time on pacification and training of Vietnamese troops as they did only a month ago. Increasingly, the Vietnamese handle a larger share of patrol duty. That fact is not only reflected in lower U.S. casualties but also in relatively unchanged ARVN losses over the past month: during the last reporting period, they lost 290 men killed, almost three times the number of American dead...
...Jacksonian America. Once they were the heroes of the American democratic my thology. Walt Whitman catalogued them. Carl Sandburg cel ebrated them. "The people will live on," he wrote - mean ing the workers, the "common man" in a slightly nostalgic sense, the people nowadays referred to as the lower middle class. The traditional American values and ambitions sus tained them. Today, those virtues seem to many to be mocked and perverted. The white lower middle class feels dan gerously ignored, as outdated as Norman Rockwell's folksy icons. With justice, Richard Nixon calls them "forgotten Americans...
...Gallup poll recorded that 56% of the people interviewed approved of the Chicago cops. What those people meant was: "Those were our chil dren who were doing the beating." They also meant that their view of themselves as a last moral bastion has become ever more frustrating. Lower-middle-class Americans read of millionaires who pay no taxes. The clergymen whom they value lead open-housing demonstrations. They dream of sending their children to college, but the universities have become battlegrounds for black militants and white rad icals. Their bumper stickers suggest an apprehensive kind of jingoism (REMEMBER THE PUEBLO...