Word: mid-august
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John K. Fairbank, professor of History, said last night that Nixon "has always gotten around" previous promises to reduce military actions in Southeast Asia and that he had "no idea" whether the bombing would end on schedule in mid-August...
...played a key role in the final decision to drop the negative income tax. From inside the campaign, McGovern was being urged to drop the plan by Van Dyk and Paul Offner, a former aide to Senator Gaylord Nelson who joined the campaign to work on economic issues in mid-August. Offner believes that, until he brought it to their attention, McGovern and Weil had not considered the fact that the plan would put a third of the nation "on welfare", though Weil denies this...
...mid-August 1967, the torturing of prisoners in Kasler's building began in earnest (he had been moved from the Hanoi Hilton to another prison in the capital, "the Zoo-that's what it reminded us of"). The Vietnamese had discovered that the Americans were communicating with each other by tapping on the concrete walls, and wanted to know who was guilty. Kasler certainly was. With the prisoners' special tap code, he said, he "could send a message through five rooms and get an answer back in ten minutes. We really got pretty fast...
...principle, the Summer term is not yet definite. First the faculty and then the Yale Corporation must approve an ad hoc faculty committee's plans for a pilot summer term in 1974 and a regular third trimester in 1975. The Summer term would start in mid-May and finish in mid-August...
...West German Air Traffic Controllers Association last week defied its country's official-secrets act and published a list of more than 100 dangerously near misses in the two months from mid-June to mid-August...