Word: southerns
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...Vietnamese, the name means approximately "place of angels." To the 1,200 U.S. Marines guarding it and to Americans watching their ordeal, Con Thien has come to mean something more akin to hell. Since Sept. 1, the outpost, less than two miles from the southern edge of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams, has been under relentless bombardment from Communist guns. In one barrage last week, the Communists sent 903 artillery, mortar, rocket and recoilless-rifle shells whistling into the perimeter around Con Thien's three barren, red clay hills-probably the greatest...
From the very start of the War of 1812, New Englanders made clear that they would have nothing to do with it. They were overwhelmingly hostile to the Southern and Western leaders anxious to retaliate against Britain by marching on Canada. New Englanders not only refused to subscribe heavily to President Madison's war loans, but they invested freely in Britain. They were attracted by the war slogan "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights"-only they forgot about the sailors and concentrated on trade. Thousands of tons of provisions that Britain needed to support Wellington's army were...
Madison became a laughingstock, but after all, his war was a failure. In 1846, President James K. Polk suffered similar humiliation, even though he could claim victory in the end. Egged on by land-hungry Southern planters, he looked for reasons to attack Mexico, in the process pushed the American frontier to the Pacific Ocean. While it raged, Folk's war was the most unpopular in U.S. history...
...Harvard Medical School has invited Governor Ronald Reagan and all 20,000 physicians in Southern California to attend a mammoth symposium in Los Angeles next month...
...most socially and politically conservative part of the nation. In the spectrum of American religious groups, American Protestants have more or less consistently been more conservative than American Catholics, and Catholics in turn more so than American Jews. It happens that Washington is, for practical purposes, a Southern protestant city, and in that respect combines conservative tendencies of a pervasive nature, or at least has done so. Vide Congressman Broyhill, the Federal civil servant's concept of a forward looking legislator...