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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But neither the military nor the civilian leaders were willing to admit that a military victory in the classic World War II sense was impossible under the conditions imposed by the Red Chinese and the Soviets and the nature of the war. The Pentagon should have tried harder to persuade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE ARMY AND VIET NAM: THE STAB-IN-THE-BACK COMPLEX | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Michael Hurd, a 19-year-old sophomore at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, sprang to his feet and hurled his chair through the screen of the television set at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house. His birthday-Sept. 14-had come up No. 1 in the national draft lottery. Harvard Senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: The Luck of the Draw | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Under heavy attack at Lushan for the shortcomings of the Great Leap, Mao acknowledged that he had taken sleeping pills three times for tension. He was ready to shoulder the blame for his catastrophic scheme of building backyard steel foundries. Citing Confucius' Analects to the effect that the man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Mao Papers: A New View of China's Chairman | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

> For the first time, Pakistan will operate under the one-man, one-vote rule. The chief result will be to give populous but impoverished East Pakistan greater power-this despite the fact that Yahya is a West Pakistani and his province has been predominant in the past. The move, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan: Back to Democracy, On the Double | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Some unspecified wrinkles about working conditions remain to be smoothed out. Flashes of temperamental lightning could still postpone or even wreck the whole proceeding. Nonetheless, both management and the artists have started trying to scrape together a new Met season, and it could get under way either Dec. 29 or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Is Believing | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

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