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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their part, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Communist troops were still confident of their ability to strike. While Viet Nam five weeks ago uneasily celebrated Tet, the main holiday of the year, Communist troops filtered stealth ily out of their sanctuaries toward major targets throughout the country. When the Buddhist Year of the Rooster was still only six days old, they were ready to sound their own sobering crow: a co ordinated offensive against practically every population and military center in South Viet Nam. Significantly, they chose to attack most often with long-range firepower, indicating that their numbers...
Whether that judgment is too harsh or not, the U.S.'s main business at this juncture must be to seek a settlement. There are essentially two approaches open to Nixon that could lead to a measurable disengagement from Viet Nam: a negotiated solution, or a seesaw of unilateral de-escalations, with each side presumably matching the other's withdrawals. The second possibility, involving the notion that the war will decline gradually by degrees of voluntary and informal pullout, is viewed by many U.S. experts as the most probable ending. Provided that the withdrawals were both steady and large enough, this...
...atmosphere, blunt end down. An orange-yellow glow filled the window as the heat shield became incandescent. Fiery chunks torn from the shield hurtled past the window. Shroud lines could be seen whipping in the wind, and viewers could almost feel the jerk as the or-ange-and-white main chutes opened, abruptly slowing the descent. The scene ended with the sky and clouds gyrating sickeningly, and the colorful chutes appearing and disappearing in the window as the descending Gumdrop swung back and forth...
William Ehrlich '25 of Touraine's main office in Braintree claimed yesterday that the picketing at the store has not decreased the number of purchases or total receipts. Picketers maintain they have turned away one-third to one-half of the customers. One customer entered the store saying, "I'm going to shop here just because of you people...
Munro has a flock of lettermen returning this year, and several talented sophomores are on hand from last year's once-beaten Yardling team. "Our main problem all around is probably depth, especially at attack," Munro said last night...