Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laos, there has been a buildup of the North Vietnamese forces that guard and repair the vital Ho Chi Minh Trail over which supplies are funneled to the South. The U.S. State Department last week expressed "some serious concern" over this buildup, but the government of Prince Souvanna Phouma has much more reason for concern. It reported that North Vietnamese forces had launched a "general offensive" against several government villages: Ban Nam Bac, north of the royal capital of Luang-prabang, and Lao Ngam and Phalane...
...also with M-60 machine guns (as will be all the ARVN this year), the Vietnamese 1st will soon take over Gio Linh, Con Thien and all the exposed positions where the Marines have taken such heavy casualties in the past year. This changing of the guard along the vital DMZ line is a measure of the new respect for the ARVN. It is also an earnest omen of the responsibilities that it must some day assume everywhere in South Viet...
There is a lesson in that. Right now, with or without reforms, the one vital step that every citizen can take is to cough up a small campaign contribution in support of the party, principle or candidate that means the most to him. Only if millions of Americans come to the aid of their principles in election year 1968 will their parties truly reflect their wishes and flourish as free institutions...
...important force in winning political office in the U.S. is green power: the money required to publicize a candidate's views and persuade the voters that he is worthy of governing by their consent. Those who give the cash exercise a vital form of political expression: they provide a basic nourishment of democracy. "Money," says California Democratic Boss Jesse Unruh, "is the mother's milk of politics." Yet Americans remain deeply suspicious of the campaign spending essential to effective elections. They fear that political contributors buy political influence. They know that even the nation's greatest political...
Last week's "adventure" outside that direction, says Conductor White, served to show that "somewhere in the past all these kinds of music have a common ground. Our music and rock are similar in that the rhythms are strong and vital, the harmonies are crisp and clear, and there is so much improvisation that the performer is part creator. In our concert, groups thought to be opposed were working together for the same purpose...