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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...massacre of March 16, 1968, can be explained away as further proof, if any were needed, that war is indeed hell. Especially the Viet Nam war, with its peculiar frustrations, its bloody agonies, its nervous uncertainties about who and where the enemy really is. But to excuse My Lai on these grounds, or to argue that the enemy has done worse (as he has), is to beg a graver issue. The fact remains that this particular atrocity-a clear violation of the civilized values America claims to up hold-was apparently ordered by officers of the U.S. military and carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: On Evil: The Inescapable Fact | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...intelligence learned of the mishap through ELINT (for electronic intelligence). Deployed on the ground, aboard reconnaissance aircraft, or inside ferret-type electronic satellites, ELINT's sensors can easily detect large explosions, even at great distances, from the electromagnetic disturbances that they cause in the atmosphere. If added proof of the Soviet troubles is needed, the Russians themselves have indirectly provided it. The chief of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Mstislav Keldysh, last month unexpectedly announced that the Russian effort to land men on the moon had been indefinitely delayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: Disaster at Tyuratum | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...jammed rifle at Shiloh. That a man should live and die in the house where he was born, that he should take up his father's trade as a matter of course-these things have signified stagnation. Change has been our commonplace, our comfort and our proof of progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A World Well Lost | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...should attempt to normalize its relations with Iron Curtain nations. As Chancellor, he can now press his ideas even more vigorously than before. He is eager to increase trade, travel and communication agreements and establish normal diplomatic relations with Eastern European governments, which Bonn snubbed for years. Moreover, as proof of his realistic approach, he is believed ready to renounce Germany's claim to the 40,000 square miles of former German territory inside Poland and work out an agreement that would grant a form of recognition to the Communist government of East Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: GETTING TOGETHER IN EUROPE | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

Coop president Milton P. Brown 40 Lincoln Filene Professor of Retailing. points to the nearly successful "Coop Coup" as proof that the old by-laws were unworkable and unfair in practice. "We were concerned not only that a small minority could take control, but that it could also have no representation at all." Brown said last month...

Author: By Alan S. Geismer jr., | Title: By-Laws Revision Passed In Coop Membership Vote | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

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