Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright's committee also hammered at Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who testified for the third time in ten weeks. Unperturbed under needling from Morse, McNamara reported that 3,234 Americans had been killed since 1961 in Viet Nam, and some 15,000 wounded. But without those sacrifices and the...
∙ THE REGIME. Seventeen years after its victory over Chiang Kaishek, the Communist regime is solidly entrenched on the mainland. The chance of an internal revolution that would overthrow the Chinese Communists, says Professor Robert Scalapino of the University of California, "seems remote, barring global war or some other major...
A small-town fellow with uncomplicated tastes, Roche was born in Elgin, Ill., the son of a funeral director. His father died when he was twelve, and Roche went to work in a notions store after school and on Saturday. Unable to afford college, he took correspondence courses in accounting...
Nonetheless, the celebration was a festive occasion. Throngs of peasant women and men, peddling sausages and souvenirs, clustered in the newly washed streets of the normally drab industrial city. When Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski arrived two days before the ceremonies, he was nearly mobbed by frantic tens of thousands, chanting wildly...
Then, abruptly, Tri Quang called the mobs off and early last week summoned the press to the ramshackle five-acre compound of buildings that comprises the Vien Hoa Dao. While his spokesmen read a statement threatening "a civil war that will take tens of thousands of lives because of the...