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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COFO scheduled a mass meeting for last night to plan further action against use of the literacy test, which has been abolished in other Mississippi counties. They also hope to establish a mobile registration unit which would travel through Negro communities in an effort to increase Negro voting

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arrests 45 | 3/2/1965 | See Source »

...plays go (a Japanese game of strategy) like an expert-though one Japanese master found him "too hasty." In Shanghai some years ago, Chen's friendliness with Chekiang Opera Star Yuan Hsueh-feng was the talk of the Bund. He once said: "Without women, a guerrilla unit has no soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: A Test for Tigers | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...United States must begin its new diplomacy by ceasing all air attacks against North Vietnam. And America should recognize that the rice bowl of South Vietnam and the industry of the North have to be reunited, if Vietnam is to become a viable economic unit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Get Out of Vietnam | 2/24/1965 | See Source »

...Very Bad." Four miles across the rolling plateau, another Viet Cong unit of six to ten men crept toward a compound at II Corps headquarters, where 180 U.S. advisers lived. Slipping past the outer defense perimeter manned by Vietnamese guards, they cut their way through an apron of barbed wire, crawled on their bellies toward the compound gate. Just as they reached it, a U.S. sentry, SP5 Jesse Pyle of Marina, Calif., spotted them and opened fire, killing one guerrilla. The noise roused the sleeping Americans, saved many from certain death had the Viet Cong slipped inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: A Look Down That Long Road | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

...reached Saigon, Mauldin beat his way 240 miles north to Pleiku, where his son Bruce, 21, a helicopter pilot, was flying combat missions. One of his first discoveries was that war correspondence is not what it used to be. In World War II, said Mauldin, newsmen joined a combat unit, slogged along with the men, lived the combat life for weeks or even months. But Mauldin was the only newspaperman at Pleiku. "These boys," said he of the station's troops, "are sitting out there like outposts in Indian country"-visited only rarely by correspondents, who fly up from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Correspondents: Up Front Once More | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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