Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winnetka, a prosperous suburb of Chicago, Mrs. John A. F. Wendt reads the Chicago Tribune, has a son working in Viet Nam for the State Department, and views the home front with horror: "This great country, with the great people who are in it, to have these things happen, you get the feeling it was all planned, all stirred up. I definitely think this Negro rioting is tied into this Communist thing...
...essentials of U.N. diplomacy remain, as Adlai Stevenson once defined them, "protocol, alcohol and Geritol," the 23rd session will likely provide more than usual amounts of vitriol. Czechoslovakia and Viet Nam offer abundant fuel for debate, even though both are absent from the 99-item agenda. But they are effectively out of the U.N.'s scope. Czechoslovakia's new representative, Zdenek Cernik, spread the word that an Assembly debate would be most unhelpful to Prague, and the Russians, who doubtless dictated Cernik's position, vociferously agreed...
Regional Preserve. On the Viet Nam issue, Secretary General U Thant last week only underscored the U.N.'s impotence when he mused at a press conference what might happen if a resolution was presented calling for a halt to U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam. Thant made no mention of a reciprocal move and conceded in advance that such a resolution was "not a very practical proposition." U.S. Representative George Ball concurred. In what turned out to be one of his last state ments before resigning (see THE NATION), Ball judged the Secretary General's comments...
...smell out North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, and let out tiny "yowls" of excitement that could be amplified for human ears. But while field tests showed that the buggy road show would actually work, it proved too troublesome to keep the bugs both healthy and hungry in Viet Nam...
Scout Dogs. In the immensely difficult environment of Viet Nam, such far-out attempts are taken entirely seriously. Animals play a major role on both sides of the conflict. More than 1,000 dogs are in action on the allied side alone, and nearly 100 veterinarians serving in the U.S. Army in Viet Nam help care for them. German shepherd scout dogs lead jungle patrols sniffing out ambushes. Often they are more alert than their masters: last week, a U.S. Marine company commander took heavy casualties in an ambush after ignoring a dog's warning. The shepherds have...