Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extremists, the first signal illumination came in the explosion last March that ripped up a Weatherman bomb factory in Manhattan, killing three members of the group. Weatherman activity declined, and then, early in December, Fugitive Bernardine Dohrn, one of the group's leaders, issued a manifesto that was at once a critique of past mistakes and a manual for future strategy...
...days, the biggest force assembled in South Viet Nam since Richard Nixon fell heir to the war was poised on the rugged Laotian frontier. When the signal came from Washington early last week, hundreds of American helicopters lifted into the dust-choked sky at Khe Sanh, then darted off to landing zones, where South Vietnamese troops awaited them. At the same time, South Vietnamese tanks and armored personnel carriers rumbled westward on Route 9 and thrust across the border into the jungles of Laos. A new and possibly perilous phase was beginning in the long struggle for Indochina...
...hard-liners on the right threaten real trouble if Souvanna should open serious peace talks with the Pathet Lao or if he should suffer another major defeat. "If Long Cheng or the Bolovens Plateau falls," said one Laotian general, "Souvanna is finished." The Communist advance was also a signal to Abrams that if the U.S. menaced the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the Pathet Lao and the North Vietnamese would take over most of the rest of Laos...
Hearty congratulations! You have done it again. In publishing. "Nuclear Bombs in Vietnam?" by M. David Landau [Dec. 14], you have rendered your readers a signal service. If a knowledge of this newest atrocity, using "mechanized murder", does not arouse the conscience of the American people, nothing can save America from moral suicide. And physical suicide must inevitably follow, not at the pace of Rome earlier, but at electronic speed...
...march today should also signal the beginning of a renewed commitment to building a movement which can prevent American crimes instead of just reacting to them...