Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American MP floated Loan down the river under the protection of the floor boards of the docks and stilt-houses until he could be safely evacuated. Loan's deputy, however, died in action, as did the commander of Tan Son Nhut Airbase. But because of the remarkably swift reaction of the city's 50,000 government defenders. Saigon's civilian dead numbered only a few hundred, less than one-twentieth of those at Tet. And by week's end an estimated 2,500 Communists had died in their attempt to breach the capital's defenses...
Never in Doubt? Inasmuch as Washington and Hanoi had done nothing more than select a place to talk about talks, the reaction was disproportionately euphoric. On Wall Street, the Dow-Jones industrial average spurted 11.91 points before receding during an 18 million-share day. In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield cried: "Excellent, excellent! The ice jam has been broken." "This is the best news I have heard for a long time," said U.N. Secretary-General U Thant...
Jean & Jack. Most serious of the U.S. worries is the reaction of the Saigon government. Already, fears of a U.S. withdrawal have produced symptoms of a virulent anti-Americanism. Both Thieu and his flamboyant Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky last week swore they would "never" have anything to do with a coalition government that included the Viet Cong. Ky was particularly upset by U.S. criticism of the performance of the South's government and army. Speaking in Dalat, he lashed out at "those colonialists who think that by giving us a small quantity of material support that they can slander...
Cooling Tempers. Initial reaction to the police raid was an emotional tide of sympathy for the protesters. There were numerous student rallies on campus, one of which led to a brief but violent clash with police that contributed eleven more injuries to the week's total. Both the Spectator and the moderate student government called for resignations of Kirk and Provost David Truman and joined S.D.S. President Mark Rudd in urging a campus strike-a suggestion formally supported by 400 faculty members. Rudd, 20, was leader of last March's sit-in at Low Library (for which...
...throughout Cambridge illustrated a widespread desire for new faces," observed Herbert F. Mattson, a popular new state Democratic committeeman who just won his position by a 4-1 margin. According to Mattson, the city and ward committees are traditionally do-nothing and lackadasical, and the election results were a reaction to this practice...