Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promising too much and delivering too little, and reaction among Negro leaders was mixed. CORE's associate director Roy Innis sneered: "This is a hoax on the black people." Replied the N.A.A.C.P.'s Clarence Mitchell, who lobbied for the bill: "Anyone making such statements either has not read the bill or is just plain dishonest...
...Westmoreland and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker read the ledger, the U.S. position looks encouraging-and the Pentagon insists that the readings do not represent the sort of optimism that flowed all too easily before the shock of Tet. As the military experts see it, the Communists took crippling losses in the 40,000 of their soldiers killed during the Tet campaign and the 15,000 chewed up during their disastrous siege of the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh (see box). The Tet onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with...
After a sharp firefight, police wounded the assailant and dragged him from a nearby cellar. He was identified as a 23-year-old Munich house painter named Josef Bachmann, who had traveled to Berlin expressly to kill Dutschke. "I read about Martin Luther King and thought, 'You too must do something like this,' " he explained to police. Even as Dutschke underwent a successful five-hour operation for the removal of a bullet from his skull, and seemed to be on the way to recovery, the news of the attempted assassination caused Germany's most widespread civil disturbances...
Perkins has accepted an invitation to be a visiting lecturer in Germany at the University of Gottingen. "I also plan to work on my book on the sublime and to read extensively in modern German poetry," he said yesterday...
...only read a few sentences in Avatar, but that was enough to convince me that it was filth," Vellucci said. "Maybe it's the intelligent way to say things now, but that wasn't the way I was brought...