Word: nams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, despite signs of rising Wallace strength in Missouri, Indiana, Nebraska, Kentucky, Montana and Wyoming, there is only a slim chance that he will throw a deadlocked election to the House of Representatives. Still, with seven weeks to go, there is enough time for events in Paris, Viet Nam or the ghettos?or a serious campaign gaffe?to scramble all the equations...
Numerous dissidents are putting pressure on Humphrey to modify his views in exchange for their support. Michigan McCarthyites returned home from Chicago and in a subsequent state Democratic convention pushed through a Viet Nam statement approximating the national convention's rejected minority plank. Thus armed, they may now offer to back Humphrey in exchange for a permanent role in the Michigan party structure...
...dominant position." Says Tariq Ali, the Oxford-educated Pakistani who leads Britain's New Left: "What has been made clear in Czechoslovakia is that Marxist concepts are not being applied in the Soviet Union. If Moscow felt the need to intervene somewhere, it should have been in Viet Nam...
Baffling Questions. It was the second time that the enemy had briefly made it into Tay Ninh in less than a month. What quite baffled General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander m Viet Nam, and nine other top U.S. and Vietnamese officers who visited Tay Ninh after the attack, was why the Communists came and why they gave up so readily. They had apparently planned to hold the city for at least three days. They had forces enough to do so but changed their minds...
...military machine in South Viet Nam is technically more efficient than ever before. Improved gathering of physical intelligence by sensor devices, long-range reconnaissance patrols, helicopter cavalry squadrons and snooper aircraft may well have headed off the Communists' plans for late August attacks. New emphasis on night patrolling and staking out ambushes has broken the Viet Cong's mastery of the night in parts of South Viet Nam...