Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Endless Effort. Both sides will have to accept certain realities if agreement is ever to be reached. The U.S. will have to reconcile itself to the prospect that future Saigon governments will include at least some Communists. Hanoi will have to accept the reality that even a phased U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam will probably require at least three to five years. U.S. air power is likely to offer the South a protective umbrella for a much longer period...
Whatever may happen in Paris, peace seemed a distant prospect last week on the battlefields of Viet Nam, where the war rose to a fighting pitch of intensity unequaled since the Tet offensive. The Viet Cong shelled Saigon and a dozen other cities and attempted ground attacks in some cases, but their assault, far from being a second round on the scale of Tet, amounted to little more than coordinated harassment. Elsewhere, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces scored sizeable victories in heavy fighting around Saigon, in the Delta and, particularly, in northernmost I Corps, where the bloodiest battles...
...developed the pattern of sit-ins, lie-ins, marches and some violence. After civil rights, the second issue was Viet Nam. This was not merely a question of sticking up for somebody else; the draft made it a highly personal issue for many students. They did not like the prospect of getting shot at in a war that many of them considered to be unjust and immoral...
...Smashups. Abbé Renard seriously raises the question of whether the devout Christian should perhaps renounce entirely such a diabolical tool. His answer is no-first, because such a prospect would be practically impossible; second, because sensible driving is a pleasurable good (Renard, 34, a high school chaplain in the northern French village of Bethune, likes to drive himself). The only solution to the ethical problem of the automobile, he affirms, is for Christians to cease reverting to barbarianism the moment they climb behind the wheel...
Peace in Viet Nam may still be a long way off, but even the prospect of negotiations has created a new mood for much of U.S. business. As they look toward war's end, most businessmen see economic possibilities that range from pleasant to dazzling. Says Economist Arthur Smith of the First National Bank in Dallas: "No single event would do more good for the nation's economy than ending...