Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Loan's act caused little stir in Sai gon, where for two years the general has waged a ruthless, successful campaign against street terrorists. His fellow student in pilot-school days and longtime sponsor in government, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, dismissed the incident with little more than a shrug. But the execution aroused sharp world opinion, and raised a question that has concerned the U.S. since it took on the Viet Cong: How should prisoners in a guerrilla war be treated...
There is a faint hope that Johnson's egregious mishandling of the draft dilemma may stir Congress to implement Senator Edward M. Kennedy's Selective Service reform bill--which would substitute random selection for the oldest-first policy. If Congress, like the President, avoids reevaluating the bizarre draft system, it will continue to exacerbate American frustration with an irrational war policy...
Criticized or not, Westmoreland obviously will return to the U.S. one day. Talk of his imminent recall last summer turned out to be merely rumor, and with the battle looming at Khe Sanh, his return at this moment would certainly stir considerable speculation. Yet he has already spent four years in Viet Nam, long enough so that he could logically be relieved at any time...
...least one thing can be said for the Cambridge city government: it smashes constitutional rights only selectively. The freedom of peaceable assembly that bug eyed suburbanites and teeny boppers use to redress their grievances each weekend in Harvard Square has never caused much of a stir down at City Hall. Even though the weekend gapers stop traffic, dirty the sidewall, cram the Coop, and induce claustrophobia, they obviously have redeeming social--and economic--value. A small circulation magazine that socks it to the powers that be, in the very language those powers use in their back rooms, is another matter...
...sheer size of foundations-their collective wealth and power as investors in the stock markets and their influence on U.S. society-has begun to stir criticism and concern in some quarters. When looked at in the widest context, this point of view seems unwarranted. Foundation wealth represents the tiniest fraction of all private wealth in this country, which is estimated at $2.15 trillion. Foundation grants account for only 8% of total U.S. philanthropy, 80% of which comes from the individual giver, in a gamut of generosity that embraces large and small offerings to hospitals, churches, the Community Chest and even...