Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a strategy aimed at maintaining appearances can explain the recent "second Tet" attack on Saigon. Two weeks before it started, the highest ranking defector to come over to the allied side, Lieut. Colonel Tran Van Dae, brought with him the complete battle plan. Nonetheless, the Communists attacked, launching 26 battalions toward the city, more than twice as many as employed during Tet. With the allies waiting, it was a lemming-like march to almost certain destruction. Not a major unit got inside Saigon proper. Many of the attackers were so youthful and green and recently infiltrated that they...
...triple-canopied terrain around Kham Due favored the enemy, and only limited ground reinforcements were available. With the Communists bunched around the camp, the U.S. also hoped to use its airpower to maximum effectiveness -and it did, killing hundreds of the Communists and setting off dozens of secondary explosions. Nonetheless, the evacuation turned out to be a harrowing operation. Two C-130s, a Skyraider fighter-bomber and five helicopters were gunned down by the North Vietnamese, including one C-130 loaded with the camp's Vietnamese defenders and their dependents. How many were on board no one knows...
...master plan for revolution but by a sense of moral outrage-to say nothing of a fascination with rhetoric à la Che. Says Columbia S.D.S. Chairman Mark Rudd: "It has energy, and that's why I'm in it." The certainty that they are morally right nonetheless pushes S.D.S.-ers toward intellectual arrogance and a facile conviction that ends justify means, including violence. For all their talk about "participatory democracy," few members seem prepared to accept, or readily tolerate, anybody else's ideas on how society's ills can best be cured...
...Spiegel in the mind of the subject. Could the subject have been made to tell his story to the FBI? The current experiment did not answer that question, but to Dr. C. Knight Aldrich, a psychiatrist at the University of Chicago School of Medicine, the Spiegel film was nonetheless persuasive. "I am not saying that testimony under hypnosis has no place in a court of law," he said, "but it must be viewed as not having superior validity. Courts should be highly skeptical of testimony given under hypnosis...
...system, says New York Stock Exchange Executive Vice President R. John Cunningham, 41, the man responsible for getting it under way, "relieves brokers of the burden of storing, checking and accounting for stock." Nonetheless, the upsurge in trading-volume on the Big Board is averaging a hectic 12,479,000 shares a day in 1968-means that the C.C.S. alone will probably not be enough even after it is in full operation. So acute is Wall Street's paper deluge that the Big Board has been forced to impose restrictions, including bans on registration of new securities salesmen...