Word: maine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unthinkable that the U.S. withdraw" at this point. "Our military effort must succeed." Defending the need to bomb the North, he added: "We must use military force as necessary to reduce or cut off the flow of men and supplies from North Viet Nam, to knock out enemy main force units, and to provide a military shield for the South...
...Viet Cong casualties. Some squads have been wiped out on deep patrol and some platoons so badly mauled that they could no longer operate as units. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have themselves countered with fresh tactics, including deep patrols of their own. But the enemy's main thrust has been at forward U.S. artillery batteries that make American deep patrols both possible and potent. In recent weeks the Communists have launched frantic attacks at U.S. forward fire bases from Camp Carroll along the Demilitarized Zone to Bong Son near the eastern coast. When mortaring, though, they have...
...involvement, like everyone else's is part-time and voluntary. Membership on the formal, controlling body--the directors--is continually changing: three of the ex-presidents who want to back DeGuglielmo are not even on the board. Moreover, most CCA members are middle or upper class people whose main incentive for joining was the intangible desire to "promote honest, efficient government," as a CCA phamphlet explains. These people don't like to take orders; they prefer to follow the logic of their own moral or political position...
...third assumption is that static efficiency is the main valid economic goal, and that it doesn't conflict with dynamic efficiency. Grossman, on page 7 of Economic Systems, makes this important distinction between these two types of efficiency, but this passage is not assigned in our readings of Grossman, as we feel it should...
Lamont came from a family that had already established a tradition of service to Harvard. His father helped finance the main undergraduate library, and members of the family established the Florence Corliss Lamont Professorship of Divinity in memory of Lamont's mother...