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...main thrust of Y.W. activities these days is directed toward social action in the community. The St. Louis association, for instance, has started a letter-writing campaign to persuade the Missouri legislature to enact a fair-housing law. In Cincinnati, under a Y.W.-sponsored program social workers go to old-age nursing homes to entertain and teach lonely inmates recreational skills. Y.W. members now run a number of local Job Corps, Head Start and Neighborhood Youth Corps programs. In another tie-in with the federal antipoverty program, 27 Y.W. centers are opening their residences to 1,800 girls just...
...turned out to be the last North Vietnamese thrust near Khe Sanh. When the Marines stormed up 881 North, twelve days after the battle for the valley had been joined, the Communists had withdrawn into Laos. The Marines counted 575 enemy bodies on the three hills and estimated that air and artillery had taken at least another 600 Communist lives-a "tremendous" toll, said General William Westmoreland, who visited the battlefield. "I don't think the battle is necessarily over," he added. "I anticipate further fighting in the area...
...blunt Nasser's thrust, King Hussein of Jordan went to Teheran last week for talks with the Shah of Iran. This week King Feisal, the leader of the more moderate Arab regimes, goes to London to make a plea for more arms aid. "We are obliged, however reluctantly, to defend ourselves," says Feisal, whose country is also infiltrated with pro-Nasser terrorists and has been bombed by Egyptian planes. The British are helping Feisal strengthen his army and build an air defense system. In London, he is expected to ask the British to refrain for the moment from giving...
...that sense of impotence. It would bring its weight to bear-through the electoral process, if necessary, in 1968-to alter the direction of our present policy. Instead of continuing escalation, increasing bombing and troop commitments, it would call for de-escalation, leading to negotiations and eventoal disengagement. The thrust of its criticism would be that the Administration now appears to place higher priority on military victory than on political solution and that our present policy may involve us in a broader war which is certainly not justified by our interests in Southeast Asia. Even if it did not formulate...
...Viet Nam and bigger bombing missions sought out new targets. While many Americans grew skeptical of the Administration's pronouncements, Hanoi, by contrast, may well have interpreted them as evidence of Washington's ultimate unwillingness to go the last mile to stem North Viet Nam's thrust for the South...