Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week in Toledo, the Vice President promised that, if elected, he would "reassess the Viet Nam situation in light of the assistance that is required from the U.S." As the South Vietnamese army improved, he added, he would "move toward a systematic reduction in American troops." The pledge was hardly startling, since that has been the Pentagon's goal for some time...
Five days ago Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey told a group of Toledo housewives that if he were elected to the White House "it would be my policy to move toward a systematic reduction in American forces" in Vietnam. "I think we can do it. I am determined we can do it," he told them...
Unsoothed by a summer's vacation, the nation's restive schoolteachers last week faced the reopening of classes in a belligerent mood of complaint and protest. Last-minute compromises prevented strikes that would have shut down the school systems of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Toledo. Teachers did go on strike in East St. Louis, Ill., as well as in scattered school districts from Rhode Island to Utah, including 16 districts in Michigan...
...rational and uniform. Otherwise, as New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes complained last week, states with strong laws will invariably be "subverted" by those with weak ones. Michigan residents who want to avoid buying a pistol permit?and having their background checked?simply drive across the Ohio border to Toledo, where guns are sold even at the candy counter of a sleazy hamburger stand. Massachusetts police in a ten-year study traced 87% of the guns used in local crimes to purchases in neighboring states where no waiting period or background investigation was required...
Death in a Bunker. Five other missionaries huddled in an adjacent house for two days as fighting raged, then took refuge in a hastily dug trench. Finally, the Rev. Robert Ziemer, 49, a minister from Toledo, Ohio, left the trench to plead with surrounding Communist troops to hold their fire. They shot him in the head and chest. Next to die was Nurse Ruth Wilting, 42, of Cleveland, who had gone to the clinic 200 yds. away for medicines; the Communists opened fire as she returned, and she fell into the bunker, mortally wounded...