Word: much
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of course. Sir Robert Thompson, who led the victory over Communist guerrillas in Malaya and is now a Rand Corp. consultant, recently returned to Viet Nam to sound out the situation for President Nixon. He told the President last week, says a White House official, "that things felt much better and smelled much better over there...
DEFECTIONS. Since the Chieu Hoi (open arms) program was begun in 1963, the number of defectors to the Saigon government has risen from 11,248 that year to 43,599 so far this year. Much of the big jump in 1969 comes from a sharp increase in the Mekong Delta, where ARVN troops have made new, deeper sweeps. The countrywide total for October was 5,615, the largest ever in a single month...
...major disappointment in the Harvard victory was Jim Abbott's (unlimited) loss to Brown's Frank Walsh on a pin. "I was a little upset over that loss." Harvard coach John Lee said after the match. "If he'd lose ten pounds, he'd be much better...
...could not support Humbhrey and those who would not change the course of the war, it is not as clear to an outsider. Many of the John Kennedy men were more devoted to the family name than the issue. This did not show up in the plank fight so much, but the Humphrey McCarthy nomination fight made the issue clear. McCarthy, though he represented the war issue clearly, was unacceptable for many Kennedy men because he would not return the Kennedy-government-in-exile...
...think the continuation of the war under these circumstances is immoral." But he added that this was not his position from the beginning. He, like so many others, had been firm and quick to follow the lead of the President. But he, like so few others, has learned much from his error...