Word: viets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong Attacks
...SAIGON-The Viet Cong launched the heaviest rocket and mortar attacks in three weeks this weekend, the U. S. Command reported yesterday. The attacks were concentrated in the Mekong Delta southwest of Saigon...
Excoriate Viet Nam. Even hawks, let alone parrots, have learned to deplore Viet Nam by now, so this particular arsenal of invective doesn't stir up a Modcom audience as visibly as it once did. Time was when playgoers would weep on their armrests at the old "We won't go" non-fight pep talk...
...blatant about sex. Nudity is optional, but crudity is mandatory. Sex may be fun, but Modcom insists that its main purpose is to end the war in Viet Nam and provide a physically acceptable substitute for violence. Parting his beard for the press the other day, Beatle John Lennon put it this way: "All you've got to do to prove your manhood is lay a woman." Group grope is very much in vogue and the choreographer who can animate a stageful of writhing, slithering, intertwined bodies stands a good chance of winning this season's Laocoon Award...
...encourage defiance of the law. Not least among the reporters was Jessica Mitford. A voluble supporter of liberal causes and noted gorer of sacred cows, she arrived in Boston with her pro-Spock sympathies clearly showing, and she joined the defendants in hoping that the legality of the Viet Nam war could be exactingly explored. The hope was dashed when Judge Francis Ford quickly ruled that any discussion of the war's legality -or the draft's-would be irrelevant...