Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time that Westmoreland was purchasing with America's blood and treasure was not on his side. As the war dragged on and the toll of American dead rose to 24,364, support for the war shriveled inside the U.S. The influx of G.I.s Americanized the war, and Westy was too busy to engage in the labyrinthine stratagems needed to galvanize the Vietnamese into an effective defense of their own country. Vo Nguyen Giap, Westmoreland's opponent in Hanoi, was able to match every American move, pouring well-armed North Vietnamese troopers into the caldron below the Demilitarized Zone...
...Polarization. On the center-right is De Gaulle's party, the Union for the Defense of the Republic. Once again, it is allied with the Independent Republicans of former Gaullist Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and on the first ballot, the two parties will support the same candidate in most-though not all -constituencies...
...their protest by setting fire to an effigy of Charles de Gaulle, some 2,000 students held the campus until moderate students, anxious to finish exams, and armed police stormed it. The Italian Communist Party, through Theoretician Giorgio Amendola, did its best to explain the workers' failure to support student power. Reproving the students' "anarchism" and "old barricade spirit," Amendola urged young rebels to channel their energy toward the workers and noted that Lenin himself had warned "not to play with insurrection...
Frankly bidding for worker support in their cause, the students demanded university admission for more students from working-class backgrounds. Tito, in order to head off any such potent alliance of workers and students as that in France last month, ordered plastic-helmeted militiamen to patrol outside the university and banned all public demonstrations. He was also quick to throw a bone in the workers' direction, ordering the minimum wage of $12 a month doubled immediately. Within hours, dozens of published messages poured into student headquarters from factory Communist committees, most agreeing vaguely to aims of reform...
Despite the drubbing his Socialist Party took at the polls three weeks ago, Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni saw no alternative to limping back into the Center Left coalition with the Christian Democrats for another five-year term. The party, however, had other ideas for regaining working-class support and recovering its voting losses. Overriding Nenni, Socialist delegates voted to stay out of the Center Left alliance until the Christian Democrats gave a firm commitment to carry out the leftist reforms in housing conditions, higher education and social welfare that they had promised-but not delivered-in the previous government...