Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every pollster's report, every sounding by reporters, attests to the momentum of the law-and-order issue. The surveys fuel the rhetoric from the right. Eighty-one percent of the public believe that law enforcement has broken down. Even more believe that a "strong" President can do something about it. By large margins, the public wants looters gunned down on the streets. By varying majorities, people blame Negroes, the Mafia, Communists, rebellious youth, the courts...
Hoover's scare message is expected to give momentum to a congressional measure, now in conference, which would require universities to cut off federal aid to students who are disciplined for taking part in campus demonstrations. Similar demands for political purity may be fastened on to Defense Department grants which support scientific research...
...might try to intimidate them with a further show of force that could, perhaps by accident, turn into an invasion. Reports of Soviet tactical nuclear missiles in Czechoslovakia could only increase West German anxiety. Says Helmut Schmidt, the Socialists' parliamentary leader: "We cannot rule out the possibility that momentum of Soviet propaganda attacks might snowball into armed action...
...bombing halt in the panhandle would allow the North Vietnamese to move artillery and jet fighters to the very rim of South Viet Nam, where they could operate with impunity at close range. But beyond such specific worries, U.S. military leaders also weigh a bombing pause in terms of momentum and morale. The air campaign is the only part of a frustrating war in which the allies exert control over the tactical situation and the pace of the action...
...return, Thieu can offer only modest progress since his December meeting with Johnson in Canberra. Thieu's new Premier Tran Van Huong has not succeeded in knitting a tangle of political factions into a coherent progovernment coalition, and a promised drive against corruption has not yet gained momentum. But a mobilization of South Vietnamese manpower may be ahead of schedule: instead of 135,000 new Vietnamese troops whose pay, arms and equipment the U.S. had agreed to supply, Thieu will request weapons for 200,000 men, to boost the strength of Viet Nam's armed forces...