Word: objections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backs to the Sea. The marines' object was to trap the enemy between the river (see map) and the sea, and they used every trick in the book to pull it off. One company of leather necks crossed the river in LTVs to form a blocking force from the north.Two more companies made an amphibious landing on the peninsula'ssouthern most coast, blocking off the south. At the same time, three other companies were landed by helicopter in paddy-fields at the back of the peninsula to the west. With their backs to the sea, the Viet Cong...
...enough Negro students to another school to get down to the 50% level, or it could bring in a balancing number of white students, or do a little of both. No family, however, can be compelled to have its children transported out of their neighborhood if the parents object in writing. To help districts expand facilities to correct an imbalance, the state will pay 65%−instead of the usual 40%of construction costs...
...believe it. You cannot tell people to disobey the law and not expect them to have a disrespect for the law. You cannot keep telling them that they are being abused and mistreated without expecting them to react." Riots such as those in Los Angeles have no real object-and therein lies the pity and the danger...
...with more drama, but there are problems about dramatizing issues, if drama gets in the way of settlement . . . The department's purpose is to try to bring about what some people will call a boring situation, that is, a period of peace. But settlement is our object, and settlement frequently is not very newsworthy. There are times to move and there are times to delay. The art of the business is deciding when to move and when to delay...
...Council had to settle for only $28 million-"barely enough," snorted Finance Minister Daniel H. Martins, "to cover our needs until September." Many Uruguayans agreed. University students demonstrated angrily in downtown Montevideo, and thousands of government employees staged a series of brief protest strikes. Uruguay's immediate object in sending its eight-man mission north is to get $56 million in U.S. commercial debts rescheduled and to arrange for additional loans. The country's past record has made Washington leary. Before any further credit can be considered, the U.S. wants to see a broad program of economic reform...