Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Dimensional collage by Dennis Wheeler. A yeoman three in the Naval Reserve, Graphics Designer Wheeler chose ribbons* for his symbolic serviceman in khaki that range over four wars-World War I, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. He is well aware that no one man could have won them all. "Grouped together," he says, "they stand for valor." Carefully examined, they also say something else. Since his cover figure represents a military Establishment under attack, Navy Man Wheeler decided to slip in a nautical signal for trouble. On shipboard, that would be the ensign flying upside down...
During the two months that he has been President, nearly 2,400 Americans have been killed in Viet Nam and countless others maimed for life. Nearly 10,000 have been killed since peace talks began. Yet more concern is voiced over the oil company in Peru and the fishing boats off the coast. Our nation should decide which is more important-things or lives...
...When John Kennedy took office as President in 1961, he inherited few critical problems. Within his three years of tenure we were to experience the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall and the assignment of the first fighting troops and the first American deaths in Viet Nam. The reply his detractors receive is that three years was not time enough for him to have accomplished anything constructive...
...inflation, those classic corrosives of society, last week sorely agitated the nation. From New York to San Francisco, tens of thousands of demonstrators paraded to protest the Viet Nam conflict, which now ranks as the fourth costliest war in U.S. history in terms of lives. As of the week ending March 29, combat deaths totaled 33,641, surpassing the Korean War total by 12. Of these dead, 10,000 have fallen since the Paris peace talks began. These grim figures provided an added spur for the peace marchers. With banners demanding BRING THE TROOPS HOME and END THE WAR, they...
...Federal Reserve Board moved to intensify the squeeze on cred it. 2) At a meeting with domestic policymakers at his Key Biscayne retreat, he reviewed efforts to trim the budget enough to produce a surplus of at least $4 billion. Earlier, the Pentagon announced some cutbacks in Viet Nam spending that might be merely budgetary -but might also be a signal to Hanoi of deescalation...