Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Growing doubts about Hanoi's intentions puzzle me. Some years ago, Ho Chi Minh said that the North would fight its war of liberation for 15, 20, 30 years-as long as necessary. That is plain enough response to any U.S. "plan" to terminate...
...substantive change. Without any cooperation from Hanoi, it is difficult to see what else Nixon can do, short of a precipitate withdrawal from Viet Nam. Among the most frequent suggestions from war critics: give less solid U.S. support to the present Saigon regime, grant more political concessions to the North, perhaps including the acceptance of a coalition regime in South Viet Nam. Admittedly, such moves would be risky. But even the present cautious program of withdrawals might be carried out less hesitantly and confusingly...
Where the Negroes in Southside have only recently merged from a "colored" status, the blacks in the Hampton area have emerged from a "Negro" consciousness. It parallels the diversity in black political thinking between the rural South, with its Charles Evers and Julian Bonds, and the urban North with its Black Panthers...
...around-Robert E. Lee's home and Thomas Jefferson's graceful state capitol-but they have no effect on the modern city. The city appears as all-American as any medium-sized integrated city in the nation. The whites are moving to suburbia-toward Chesterfield and Ashland in the north and west-while the blacks are coming into the city seeking work from the nearby Southside. The lower middle-class whites resent the blacks, but can do little about it except vote for "law and order." Highways also are cutting through the black gheto forcing blacks areas and adding...
...good spirits. "It's a pleasant job." he said. "Harvard treats me good. I've been working here 24 years. I had two heart attacks twelve years ago and they gave me an easy job. Before that I was a plasterer. Then I was a janitor in the North Yard. Threc-and-ahalf years ago I came here to this House. They give us free medical care up at Holyoke Center and I get along good with the boys...