Word: saigon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surfaced on Capitol Hill, showing defiance of Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott's plea for a moratorium of his own?a 60-day pause in attacks on Nixon's war policies. Two freshman Democratic Senators, Iowa's Harold Hughes and Missouri's Thomas Eagleton, demanded extensive reform of the Saigon government ?within 60 days. Idaho's Frank Church and Oregon's Mark Hatfield asked for "a more rapid withdrawal of American troops"; George McGovern wanted an immediate pullout. On the House side, a vague resolution in support of eventual disengagement drew 109 cosponsors. But liberal Republicans Donald Riegle...
...spent much of his time attending to private business and American Bar Association affairs back home. The only genuine smile among the Americans seemed to belong to the always ebullient Harold Kaplan, the chief press officer. After years of graciously answering reporters' post-midnight queries in both Saigon and Paris, Kaplan, 51, is retiring from government service early. He will become an officer of Investors Overseas Service, a mutual fund and investment complex based in Geneva...
...Long and Short. The miniskirt has caught on all-embracingly in Saigon and Bangkok, despite official censure. To avoid police harassment, Saigon prostitutes trip along downtown streets wearing ankle-length raincoats over their minis. In Bangkok, short skirts are criticized primarily as a symbol of the increasingly resented U.S. presence. Teachers, for example, have been told to stop wearing miniskirts because they are "an example of poor Western culture." Nonetheless, Princess Ubol Ra-tana, the King's oldest daughter, sports a mini while shopping in Bangkok's boutiques. Thailand, for all its resentment of Western variations of permissiveness...
...SAIGON-The nation-wide anti-war demonstration in the United States caused a ripple but apparently no waves Wednesday among the half-million American troops whose presence in South Vietnam was at issue in the Moratorium Day protest...
...only battlefield protest reported was the wearing of black armbands by members of a platoon of U.S. infantrymen on patrol near Chu Lai, some 360 miles northeast of Saigon. There was no way of knowing immediately, however, if there were similar anti-war expressions by other GIs scattered throughout the country...