Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baumgartner spoke to a small group in the Cabot Hall Living Room on the results or her Cambridge report. In the report, she recommended that the City consolidate the health, hospital and welfare departments and create a commissioner of health to oversee the new unit...
Olly, Winter, an American advisor to a South Vietnamese unit, is a tired man who has been through the Second World War and Korea; he is sick of war, the mud, the jungle, and the killing. Flashbacks paint his past in quick, terse strokes. When he watches the jungle rush beneath his helicopter, be thinks back to a train ride he took with his mother and sister, the countryside slipping by the window; when he stabs a Viet Cong guerrilla (who turns out to be a woman), he remembers being called a sissy in the school playground; when he buries...
...commandeered a lumbering National Guard half-track and, grandly manning the turret, cried out encouragement to the citizenry as he rode to the state capitol. In Gary, winds off Lake Michigan piled up 15-ft. snowdrifts, and Indi- ana's Governor Roger Branigin mobilized a National Guard unit to clear the roads-only to find that many of the Guardsmen were themselves snowed...
...sovereign nation-state remains the world's strongest force, its basic political, economic and military unit. Yet the institution can be fatally inadequate today, even among large and wealthy nations, let alone small and under-developed countries. On the Other hand, the dream of global union among all nations is as remote and Utopian as ever. But between the two concepts-the individual nation and the "federation of the world"-an important middle ground is emerging. It is the regional grouping...
...their first task, the job of providing security for the villages of the area, small units of Marines have been involved in more than 100,000 separate actions against the Viet Cong. They have increased their kill ratio over the Viet Cong to as high as 8 to 1 and have killed or captured a total of 15,000 Communists-a high for any American unit. In what they call their "Kit Carson Program," the Marines often use Viet Cong defectors as scouts, paying them $41 a month. "They point out the guy we'd been walking right past...