Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the posture of their Government in Viet Nam. A great many of those faced with the prospect of military duty find it hard to square performance of that duty with concepts of personal integrity and conscience. Even more are torn by reluctance to participate in a war whose toll keeps escalating, but about whose purpose and value to the U.S. they remain unclear...
...bombing explains the rest. Under orders to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, U.S. bombers zoom in close to the deck for greater precision, thus become vulnerable not only to a dense cloud of flak but also to small-arms fire. Such ground fire takes an even heavier toll than do the surface-to-air missiles that bristle around major targets. "Every farmer over there, I bet, has a pistol or a rifle," says Air Force Major Edward E. Williams, a veteran of the bombing war against North Viet Nam. In dogfights with Red MIGS, though...
...scene and circled overhead, sometimes relaying rescue instructions to the searchers. On the dock at Piraeus, thousands of friends and relatives waited for the ships carrying the survivors and the blanket-shrouded bodies. By week's end 47 had been rescued, but the death toll was put at 234, making it one of the worst sea tragedies in Greek history. The government ordered a three-day period of national mourning...
...reduce the heavy toll, the Council recommended that national groups be set up to help prevent accidents, improve emergency treatment, and conduct research into such fields as shock and trauma...
...consensus effort, unfortunately, exacts some toll in clarity and incisiveness on Ford's rhetoric. His position on the '68 convention, for example: "I don't feel the Republican party ought to be monolithic . . . When you have the two extremes more or less vying, you usually end up with a moderate candidate who will exemplify and typify the Republican philosophy in 1968." On the appeal of that philosophy to young people: "it gives an opportunity to younger people to benefit from their intelligence, their efforts. The Democratic party on the other hand emphasizes what the role of the government will...