Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nevertheless has a clear-cut tactical purpose. Sitting astride invasion routes from the North, the 1,200-man garrison is there to prevent, or at least slow down, a southward surge by the estimated 35,000 North Vietnamese regulars positioned in and around the DMZ. Poised to meet this threat are eight South Vietnamese airborne and eight Marine battalions strung along the DMZ; in all of I Corps...
...threat to Government operations was largely illusory. A temporary compromise was in prospect for this week that would permit bills and payrolls to be met. The real significance of the vote was that it demonstrated the depth of anti-tax feeling in the House. Although Mills was silent, his message was all too loud: the President would have to unlimber his blue pencil...
...Liberals [must] see more clearly that their interest is in the stability of the social order, and that given the threats to that stability, it is necessary to make much more effective alliances with political conservatives who share that concern, and who recognize that unyielding rigidity is just as much a threat to the continuity of things as is an anarchic desire for change...
...Middle Atlantic Conference representatives visited Harvard Stadium for the first time last fall and were soundly trounced, 30-7. This year the Leopards should be even less of a threat and they are pitted against a Crimson squad that is confident, deep, and after four weeks of practice, raring...
First, that liberals see more clearly that their essential interest is in the stability of the social order, and that given the present threats to that stability, it is necessary to seek out and make much more effective alliances with political conservatives who share that concern, and who recognize that unyielding rigidity is just as much a threat to the continuity of things as is an anarchic desire for change...