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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aggression also reflects Hanoi's increasing control over the whole war in the South. With recruitment of fresh Viet Cong growing increasingly difficult, more and more North Vietnamese are infiltrating the South in order to fill the ranks. Westmoreland estimates that the average Viet Cong main-force unit is now 10% North Vietnamese. NVA units have lately been found operating as far down the command ladder as squad-size in hamlets. And two weeks ago in the Delta, hitherto the exclusive preserve of indigenous Viet Cong, the first North Vietnamese soldier was captured...
Later, the police let the crowd huddle in a stairwell near the courtroom door, where plainclothesmen snapped photos of everyone in sight. Police had replaced the hallways' dreary lights with new, high-powered bulbs to accommodate the cameramen. One of the main protesters was a balding but erect Soviet general in his 60s who circulated petitions among the assemblage, brandished his cane at a policeman who took his picture. "I'm not afraid of little boys!" shouted Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, who was fired by ex-Premier Khrushchev for protesting "lack of freedom" in the Soviet Union...
...loose all of the pent-up frustration of three years. "I do not pretend to be the owner or the boss of the party," he said. "This could never be the attitude of a man who owes everything to the party." He had always, Frei said, discussed the main issues with members, and had invited them to his home for talks. "You must remember," he stressed, "that I have the responsibility of administering the country. You must not forget, dear companions, that the constitution has some regulations about dates and time limits...
Adzope is one of a score of drab, sprawling towns which you pass on the Ivory Coast's main highway north of Abidjan. The West African countryside is absolutely flat, and in the thick coastal forest the town is invisible until a turn in the road brings you into the center. Then suddenly the wall of the trees opens up, and there is a glimpse of long dirt roads, gas station signs and telephone poles, laundry spread out on the grass to dry, and people walking past rows of identical shops stacked with bright plastic washtubs. The reflection...
...polls also stated that most students do not move off-campus for financial reasons. This is the main reason the Mather Subcommittee does not believe the off-campus charge will end off-campus living, Gill explained...