Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus. A substantial number of police left the university grounds, and arrests in that area dropped. The young opposition, however, showed no signs of collapsing. Protesters kept busy slipping underground newspapers to troopers when Guard officers were not looking. At one point, 15 addled Guardsmen were relieved of duty; Major General Glenn C. Ames complained that "hippie-type females" had slipped his men brownies, oranges and apple juice spiked with LSD in a sort of chemical-war counterattack...
Little City Halls. Slow as it is in coming, some progress is also being made in eliminating conditions that promote unrest. Unemployment is at its lowest point in 15 years. Although there has been no major infusion of federal money recently, expanded recreation, job and housing programs are under way in many cities. The Youth Advisory Council of Greater Los Angeles is coordinating federal, state and local job programs, and the State Employment Service plans to find jobs for all graduating high school seniors before they have a chance to waste the summer. A Model Cities program has been launched...
...Mountain anchors the northwest corner of South Viet Nam's A Shau Valley, since 1966 a major infiltration route for Communist forces from the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos to the coastal cities of northern I Corps. It is a mountain much like any other in that part of the Highlands, green, triple-canopied and spiked with thick stands of bamboo. On military maps it is listed as Hill 937, the number representing its height in meters. Last week it acquired another name: Hamburger Hill. It was a grisly but all too appropriate description, for the battle...
...abandoned-Senator Edward Kennedy charged that it was "both senseless and irresponsible to continue to send our young men to their deaths to capture hills and positions that have no relation to this conflict." After initial hesitation, the Army fought back, describing the battle as a "tremendous, gallant victory." Major General Melvin Zais, commander of the 101st, observed that "the only significance of Hill 937 was the fact that there were North Vietnamese on it. My mission was to destroy enemy forces and installations. We found the enemy on Hill 937, and that is where we fought him." Bypassing...
...insist, however, on maintaining the fiction of victory. While continuing to demand unilateral U.S. withdrawal, they would simply negotiate their own private "unilateral" pull-out with South Viet Nam-which would just happen to correspond with the U.S. schedule. On the issue of interim authority in the South, the major stumbling block, the U.S. has given up its demand that elections for a permanent government be controlled by the present Saigon regime. That, to be sure, is still a long way from agreeing to Hanoi's demand for a coalition government that would include Communists...