Word: lull
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...military front Saigon faced a more immediate challenge. The recent battlefield "lull" was shattered by Communist attacks all over the country. The renewed fighting apparently marked the start of the Communists' so-called "winter-spring campaign." They intend to stage sporadic coordinated attacks throughout the country until American public opinion forces a U.S. withdrawal. Though the campaign's start was scheduled long before last week's antiwar Moratorium demonstrations in the U.S., there was nevertheless an effort to get the fighting in step with the peace marchers. An enemy document captured southeast of Saigon recently urged intense...
Most U.S. campuses reported a lull on the peace front last week. Combat was light and scattered; it was a time for R & R between Viet Nam protests. While some participants in the Oct. 15 Moratorium concentrated on classwork, others planned for the Nov. 15 march on Washington. Even so, a few campuses had troubles that seemed big to them if not to headline writers. Items: >At Vassar College, about 30 black women students seized part of the administration building at 3:20 a.m., locked themselves inside and vowed to "stop the school" until their demands for a black-studies...
...with the presidential election. He had already scheduled an address to the nation on Viet Nam for Nov. 3, just a year and two days after Lyndon Johnson ended all U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. In it, he is likely to propose new action. If the present battlefield lull continues, Nixon may announce a suspension of the daily B-52 raids, already reduced. He will probably go ahead with a third stage of troop withdrawals, perhaps raising the total cutback for this year to the nice round figure of 100,000. The annual truce season of Christmas, New Year...
...least an absence of public criticism of the war-would make Hanoi more tractable. One trouble with the argument is that the Communists have given no hint in Paris of changing their attitude in the slightest, despite nearly nine months of little domestic protest. Fighting is in another lull, but it is doubtful how long it will last. Still, declared Nixon: "The other side doesn't seem to realize it, but I'm in here for another three years and three months. I'm not going to be the first American President who loses...
...summer lull in campus disturbances may be the chief reason why new "anti-riot" bills have not been very successful in Congress. As a staff member of the American Council on Education, the association of 1200 colleges which has led the fight against the bills, put it yesterday...