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...Vietnamese divisions in South Viet Nam. Apparently the President also decided that ARVN'S strategic position in the northern and Highlands provinces had eroded beyond repair after the successful Communist attack on Ban Me Thuot two weeks ago. For three days the South Vietnamese forces tried hard to repel a cleverly executed Communist tank and infantry assault on the city, which sits astride Route 14, the main inland north-south road. South Vietnamese air force F-5s and A-37s bombed and strafed Communist positions around the city, while ARVN forces were hurriedly ferried to the outskirts...
...anything but the standard State of the Union speech. Instead of congratulating himself on the achievements of his young and troubled Administration, Gerald Ford adopted the somber tone of a wartime leader calling for an all-out effort to repel the enemy. Instead of skipping lightly over a broad spectrum of national and foreign policies, the President concentrated almost exclusively on specific means to counter the worst economic slump since the Great Depression, the nation's almost 14% rate of inflation and the U.S.'s dangerous dependence on cartel-controlled foreign oil. Displaying the blunt candor that is his most...
...Lady Anne (Marsha Mason), Richard woos and wins her, despite the fact that he had killed both the father-in-law and her husband. Although he is a lump of deformity with a hunched back and a withered arm, Richard must have the power to attract as well as repel...
Indignant Ivy League administrators banded together this week--and one wrote a peeved letter to his faculty--to repel what they viewed as an invasion of privacy by the federal government...
...Calley, along with hundreds of thousands of other American military forces, was not sent to Korea and Indochina to repel aggression, or in support of freedom and independence, as officially proclaimed, but to rob the people living there of their national resources for the profit of the privileged few here in the USA. This was made splendidly clear, as far as Indochina is concerned at least, by President Eisenhower in a speech to the Governor's Conference in Seattle, Wash., Aug. 4, 1953 in which he mentioned the rich resources of the area and mentioned tin and tungsten among others...