Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of war over there. They keep pounding it into your head that in Vietnam there is no front. You can just as likely be killed by a sniper when you step off the plane as you can out in the woods outside the city or in the Delta region. One of the friends I graduated with from high school was a medic and four days after he went into Vietnam he was missing in action. I've known as much as three hours after a guy stepped off the plane he was killed by a sniper...
There's only one story I have heard about our treatment of the captured. About six Viet Cong were captured in the Mekong Delta region and they were questioned by intelligence officers and they wouldn't talk. So they took them up in a helicopter--all six of them--and then opened the door and asked them again. They still wouldn't answer. Then they pushed them out, one by one. They'd push one out and then ask the next "will you answer?" and they go a little higher or lower and they still won't answer so they...
...declaration that we want the South Vietnamese to enjoy the blessings of the democratic way of life. We can hope that this will be one of the most beneficial side effects of our military victory there, but the truth is that Southeast Asia is still strategically a vital region in our national defense structure and must be defended. To that selfish but important end, I earnestly suggest that the nation get on with the job of supporting Westmoreland, whose interpretation of his assignment richly deserves a return salute from the nation whose interests he so nobly defends...
...Secondary Education Act of 1965--a huge windfall for the nation's school systems--impoverished Southern districts began at long last to open doors to Negroes in order to keep the money coming. The anguished cries from Southern Congressmen are evidence as much of the impoverishment of the region's schools as of the guideline's effectiveness...
...biggest imponderable-apart from the enigma of Wallace-is the extent to which Southern voting patterns will be affected by the region's fast-changing social, economic and political structure. In both parties there have been some encouraging signs of moderation and modernization, but the turmoil that Wallace is capable of fomenting could destroy this progress. The self-described "spoiler" could also delay the Southern Negro's entry into mainstream politics. By 1968, Negro voter registration in the eleven states of the old Confederacy may exceed 3,250,000, more than double the 1960 figure. Though the actual...