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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still too early to say whether this strategy, given the situation, was right or wrong, but the big question is still why, with more than half a million well-trained troops, abundant supplies and the greatest concentration of firepower in history, Westmoreland was not able to achieve greater success. His generalship can ultimately be assessed only by the requests and equivocations that for now are sealed in Pentagon filing cabinets. Strategy aside, however, his clearest single failure was not to have built the South Vietnamese army into a respectable fighting force. His deputy and possible successor, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: End of the Tour | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...just ahead of the advancing columns, and delta-wing jets blazoned with the Star of David criss crossed the skies. In the worst out break of hostilities in the Middle East since last June's Six-Day War, Israel last week launched a massive reprisal that raised the question of whether it may have got into the unhappy habit of overreacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Foray into Jordan | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...more powerful force in this state for a longer time than Johnson. Locals who switch claim they are against the war, and indeed they may be. But when asked if they had previously thought of switching to McCarthy, they shrug and confess it was out of the question...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Kennedy Empire | 3/28/1968 | See Source »

...vigorously in New York in the two weeks between the California primary and the New York vote. But there are too many miles of terrain in New York and too many millions of voters for even Kennedy to do in this state what McCarthy did in New Hampshire. The question is whether Kennedy can do what it is fashionable to claim McCarthy cannot do--win the delegates in the back rooms...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Kennedy Empire | 3/28/1968 | See Source »

...dialogue on what the demands mean and how best to achieve them. The essential ingredient is a willingness on the part of administration and Trustees to give and take on the two really important issues as well as the problem of student seating on administration committees. On the seating question, progress is being made, since several college and Trustee committees are actively seeking student members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Miss Mitties | 3/28/1968 | See Source »

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