Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have any objections to family planning or birth control?" was phrased negatively to see if "reprisal threat" is a realistic problem. Of the 70 responding, four were eliminated for "high suggestibility" or lack of comprehension (foreign speaking). Of 66 respondents, 62 had no objection, 2 had qualified objections ("If birth control is handled properly") and 2 had religious objections. The sample was 38 per cent Catholic, 42 per cent Protestant and 20 per cent other (7 Jewish, 4 unaffiliated, 1 Greek Orthodox and 1 Buddhist). Assuming the ten refusals to be negative, the ratio is still over five...
Under the threat of attack, Hanoi was a city organized to work and move at night. The shops have not changed their hours-5 to 8 in the morning, 5 to 7 in the evening-but on sunny days thousands of cyclists now jam the midday streets. The noisy streetcars are once again so crowded that passengers ride on their footboards. The tree-shaded boulevards around the Petit Lac, the garden spot in Hanoi's center, are daily thronged with strollers. The restaurants are full of people, many of them downing breaded shrimp, the favorite dish of Hanoi...
...least some of the North Vietnamese troops that abandoned the siege of Khe Sanh are believed to have filtered down into A Shau, where they have increased the threat to Hue's security. Though the valley has been repeatedly bombed, the U.S. last week turned loose on A Shau the giant B-52s that had helped lift the siege of Khe Sanh. In ten waves averaging six planes each, the eight-engine jets hit the valley with 500 tons of explosives during a 24-hour period and kept coming back throughout the week. They blasted truck parking lots, weapons...
...help Park meet the threat, Special U.S. Envoy Cyrus Vance visited Seoul last February and promised to give Park $100 million in additional U.S. military aid this year on top of the normal $160 million. Drawing on this new account, Park is organizing a 2,500,000-man reserve that, on call, will help to patrol the coast, operate ground-surveillance radar stations and perform other such duties. He is also trying to modernize the country's 600,000-man armed forces, replacing World War II rifles with the new M16, buying U.S. helicopters for better troop mobility...