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...20th century American history or gov course will give you an analysis of why the Cuban revolution occurred, and doubtless a professor will tell you that Guantanamo Bay played some sort of role. Castro, at any rate, used it with great effect. In the mid-60s he halted the employment of Cuban workers at the base. At the same time he accused the Americans of "stealing" Cuban water through the pipeline from the mountains which had served the base since the turn of the century. In response, the Navy severed the pipeline, engineered a 'waterlift' of freshwater tankers...
...many of those polled thought a different course would have had an even worse result. Private surveys conducted by Pollster Richard Wirthlin for the White House at the same time showed a quick jump in the President's overall job-approval rating from the low 60s up to the mid-60s. That was still below his 71% high around the time of his second Inauguration in January, but marked a reversal of a persistent slump. Said Wirthlin: "There is no question that the President is stronger today than he was three weeks ago. Americans view him as having been very...
...group of 40 Americans to which Toga suddenly belonged was both ordinary and exemplary. All were men who ranged in age from early 20s to mid-60s. Aside from the three crew members, the group included an architect, a travel agent, a retired truck driver, a real estate developer and two priests. One man owned a sports-car dealership, another a business called Window Covers to Go. Three were returning from their honeymoons; others were going home to family reunions or graduations. If the passengers from Flight 847 had anything in common, it was probably a gnawing feeling shared...
...twice imagined what it would be like to be a thin-bodied Vietnamese kid blown up by, napalm. I wrote about my experiences while driving through America in a car, reading newspapers, thinking my thoughts, and having my sexual desires. It makes a good time capsule of the mid-60s and it doesn't fake experience I didn't have...
...those mid-60s views, and the survey data produced by Huntington, tell only one part of the story. As the Movement aged, it grew fiercer, following an ever-increasing spiral of rhetoric and action, a spiral that, unquestionably, helped destroy the cause. By 1969, at least the leading activists on college campuses had moved from liberal, moralistic frustration to programmatic, very radical leftism. Students who had been happy to march with signs were throwing rocks. Asked in 1969 what he foresaw "as the future tactic of the movement," Abbie Hoffman--by no means on the most radical edge...