Word: staff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maneuvering really began in earnest last February, when General William C. Westmoreland, then the U.S. commander in Viet Nam and now Army Chief of Staff, appealed to the President for 206,000 more U.S. troops in the wake of the Communists' Tet offensive. Johnson rejected the request, though he did agree to a modest increase, and the ceiling on U.S. manpower now stands at 549,000. Then came Johnson's March 31 renunciation of a second term and his declaration of a partial bombing pause over the North. Six weeks after that, in mid-May, the Paris peace...
Still, it was plain that sentiment within the Administration was overwhelmingly for a pause. From Paris, Averell Harriman was one of the first to advise that the opportunity should be grasped at once. Though nobody knew what Clifford told the President in private, studies from his staff tended to discount the value of continued bombing. "The results were so impressive," said one official, "that no one bothers to argue any more." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze was said to share the antibombing predilection...
Though the South Vietnamese army and police have some 7,700 female volunteers in staff and clerical jobs, a proposal to draft women outright was turned down: such a measure would cripple the country's economy. Of the city of Saigon's labor force of 330,000, fully 250,000 are women. They work as construction hands, substitute for men in manpower-short professions, own or run most of the capital's jewelry, clothing and tailoring shops, its restaurants and bars and some of its largest businesses. Nguyen Duy Thu Luong, for example, owns pharmaceutical laboratories, directs...
...claim that they will have to dip into their own operating funds or endowments to keep many of the NSF projects going. The Berkeley mathematics department termed the NSF reductions "outrageous and inequitable," and issued a statement warning the university that the cutbacks would cripple its research and cause staff members to leave...
...Robert Carter-an N.A.A.C.P. lawyer for 24 years -last week resigned his job as general counsel of the association. With him went the other seven lawyers and seven clerical workers who made up the N.A.A.C.P. legal department. Their mass quit-in, staged in protest over the firing of another staff member, Attorney Lewis Steel, threatened to bog down N.A.A.C.P. legal action against discrimination for months...