Word: southerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rules. But what to do? The Navy reacted in classic style by ordering the 85,000-ton nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise to show the flag in the Sea of Japan. En route at the time to Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin after a stop in southern Japan, the carrier headed north instead, accompanied by the nuclear frigate Truxtun and several other escort vessels. Six or seven other warships put out of Yokosuka later in the week, presumably bound for the same area. Shadowing Enterprise, sometimes at the dangerously close range of 800 yards, was the Soviet trawler Gidrolog...
...spending (excluding social security and other trust programs) nearly doubled, to $13 billion; the Government, for the first time, took a major role in the financing of elementary and secondary education and, after more than a decade of inaction, Washington began to enforce meaningful desegregation of Southern school systems...
Brazen Incursion. As that prospect dimmed in the face of Southern success and stagnation in the North, Kim switched from talking about "peaceful" reunification and declared: "We must accomplish the South Korean revolution and unify the fatherland in our generation." To that end, he set up subversion and terrorist schools in North Korea, where some 2,400 commandos are now being trained to infiltrate the South to start a guerrilla war. The results have become apparent in the North's new aggressiveness along the Demilitarized Zone at the 38th parallel. In 1967, there were 566 North Korean infiltration incidents...
...strong on campus. Wally Reid Ltd., a men's clothing store in Evanston, Ill., cheerfully opens charge accounts for Northwestern University students-although it invariably turns down applications by youths from the town. At the University of Georgia in Athens, the local branch of Atlanta's Citizens & Southern National Bank has been issuing credit cards, says Public Relations Officer Robert Clayton, "like they are going out of style." Still, some stores feel safer with nonstudents. J. L. Hudson Co. in Detroit, for example, extends credit to teen-agers only when they hold full-time jobs...
...southern part of Texas...