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...cecropia trees, or the river terns that wing lazily over the Amazon's mighty waters, or the secretive Indian tribes that live deep within the jungle. But along the tributaries of the world's largest river the sound is plainly discernible, like a low rumble of thunder in the distance. It is the dull, grinding roar of bulldozers cutting naked red strips through the vast Amazon rain forest...
Barred from the battlefield, correspondents were told by laughing officers, under blue skies, that what sounded like the booming of artillery was really thunder. "Soon it will rain," grinned one of the officers, squinting in the blazing sunshine...
...Defense McNamara quickly became disillusioned with the bombing strategy he had recommended to President Johnson and spent his last 16 months in office locked in bitter debate with military leaders in the Pentagon. He suggested contingency plans for sustained bombing of the North in March 1964: Operation Rolling Thunder, as the air strikes were code-named, began a year later. McNamara proposed two major escalations of the bombing during the following months, but the study reports a major shift in his thinking after an inspection trip to Viet Nam in October 1966: "Pulling back from his previous positions...
...only 15 and has never had a drink. But Yolanda King, daughter of the late Martin Luther King Jr., raised a thunder of applause at her debut last week as the dirty-mouthed whore in The Owl and the Pussycat at Atlanta's Alliance Theater. The story line did not seem to bother her mother Coretta. But Grandfather Martin Luther King Sr. and the more conservative members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church were outraged. Yolanda managed to mollify them. "Though I didn't like the language," she said, "I felt that the play had something very important...
...election, finally yielded only when a devastating Viet Cong raid on Pleiku airfield in February 1965 destroyed or damaged numerous U.S. planes. "Mr. President, this is a momentous decision," Secretary of State Dean Rusk told Johnson at the time, and Johnson agrees that it was. He approved Rolling Thunder's sustained air attacks a month later...