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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True enough, say the military, the number of battalion-and brigade-size sweeps against the enemy has not increased since the peace talks started. But they insist with pride that overall pressure on the Communists has increased-in the form of many more smaller-scale actions. Abrams has found that forays by sub-battalion-size units -companies, platoons, even squads -can be mounted more quickly, more often and in more places. Such surprise sweeps also achieve better results. Thus the general's sting-ray tactics, designed to interdict the movement of North Vietnamese units and supplies, involve the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: REBUTTAL OF HAMBURGER HILL | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...Administration's difficulty in filling even the most prized ambassadorial posts. At week's end, it was reported that Nixon had finally found a man for Bonn. But even so, 18 ambassadorships remain vacant. And Nixon has retained about 60 holdovers, including the significantly high number of 18 political appointees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: FOREIGN RELATIONS | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...Perhaps the most dramatic evidence in the entire poll on how rapidly American morality is changing," says the survey, "is the rise-and the admission of that rise-in what would surely have been considered highly serious moral infractions only a short time ago." The number of people who say that they know someone who commits adultery has risen from 24% to 36% since 1964; 15% now-v. 10% then-virtually admit to instances of adultery in their own family. In other areas, 13% know someone whose child uses marijuana, 59% know someone who drinks too much, 22% know someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CHANGING MORALITY: THE TWO AMERICAS A TIME-Louis Harris Poll | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...camp administration can arbitrarily curtail the time of meetings" with relatives, and "a considerable number of our letters and the letters sent to us disappear without a trace. We cannot write about our situation; such letters always disappear." Thus, the prisoners add, the lawmakers of the Supreme Soviet "will understand how difficult it is for us to defend what remains of our miserable rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Day in the Life of Yuli Daniel | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...Called Altruism. Though it is still too soon to make final judgments, there may be other benefits as well. Police statistics for 1967, when the ban on books but not pictures had been lifted, showed a 25% decrease in the number of sexual crimes. Whether this was coincidental or had some relation to the relaxation of the laws, police are firmly convinced at least that no increase has resulted. Nor, so far as school officials can tell, has children's contact with obscene material increased. Rektor Ole Barfoed, headmaster of one of Copenhagen's largest grammar schools, says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark: Pornography: What Is Permitted Is Boring | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

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