Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into Open Swampland. The Communists tried to reinforce their infiltrated units inside the city; they massed troops that had marched overnight from Cambodia in groups of five and six and attempted to slip them through the ring of allied troops around the city. One group of Viet Cong women dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter...
Triple A-Plus. Only on rare occasions has Humphrey let slip the merest hint of differences with the White House. Once in a while, his old logorrheic fervor would earn Johnson's displeasure, as when in 1966 he commented on urban riots: "With rats nibbling on my children's toes, I might lead a pretty good revolt myself." He also called for a "Marshall Plan" for the cities when the White House was playing down big new spending programs. But generally he disagreed with few Administration policies. On Viet Nam, Humphrey has pressed for greater social reform, fewer grand search...
...slip in judgment--if it could be established--would not justify depriving the University Police of a tool essential to their safety and efficiency. Forcing pacifism on the police would be counter-productive...
...under advisement. When he releases his rulings--which may not be for several days or several weeks--he should set a trial date. The chances are that the indictment will not be dismissed outright, and a full-scale trial will ensue. Even if Ford assiduously blocks every effort to slip the legality of the war into court, there are still enough basic issues of constitutional laws involved in the case to deserve headlines for a long time...
Even the most thoughtful can be blinded to opportunities for creative change--a lesson we in the Boston area are likely to learn the hard way we slip deeper into the urban crisis coming months...