Word: war-torn
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...cannot fight for democracy by backing more or less undemocratic regimes in Saigon. A democratic regime is hardly possible in a war-torn country without much democratic tradition. What the critics fail to admit is that even a bad non-Communist regime is usually subject to change, but once a Communist regime is established, it is virtually irreversible. Taking up the argument that the integrity of U.S. democracy at home depends on an end to the war, Columnist Max Lerner, himself a professor, recently replied: "No, it depends on not flinching from the reality principle, on maintaining clear goals without...
...tanks with 90-mm. cannon and armored troop carriers, the 2nd Battalion of the 6th U.S. Marines rolled across the red dust of a once trim polo field on the western outskirts of Santo Domingo and moved cautiously into the war-torn capital of the Dominican Republic. As the columns churned down Avenida Independencia, past the empty side streets, people suddenly appeared in windows and doorways. Some waved. Others stared. A few spoke. "I wish the Americans would take us over," muttered a woman. A man near by sighed and nodded. "Since they are here, we had better take advantage...
...first leg of a four-month, State-Department-sponsored tour of the Far East and Africa, Folk Singers Steve Addiss, 29, and Bill Crofut, 30, have spent the last month hopscotching around the outlying villages in war-torn Viet Nam. Armed with a banjo, two guitars, a flute, a French horn and a 16-string Vietnamese zither called a dan tranh, they sang in schools and hospitals, in the streets and rice fields. They sang American, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Cambodian folk songs, often to a thumping chorus of artillery and mortar fire, slept on wooden planks, hitchhiked rides...
...last May, before the U.S. political campaign really got under way, the U.S. had at least four options as to what to do about Viet Nam. They were: 1) to follow the advice of such men as Charles de Gaulle and join in a scheme to neutralize the war-torn area, 2) to expand the war and win it, 3) to get out, or 4) to muddle along as before, at least until after the election...
...third time since last November, when General Duong Van ("Big") Minh ousted President Ngo Dinh Diem, tanks and troops swept into Saigon with the intent of remaking a revolution. And indeed the rebels had a cause: Khanh had ad-libbed his role as leader of a war-torn nation for too long. His only ideological offerings were weary anti-Communism and vague nationalism. Meanwhile, the war went poorly, and in defeat Buddhists and Catholics found their historical hatreds coming to a boil. When Khanh dismissed Roman Catholic Interior Minister Lam Van Phat, a dour, desiccated brigadier general who felt...