Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brick slammed into Terry's chest and left him gasping on the pavement. In 1963, he was with Medgar Evers the night before Evers was killed at his home in Jackson. For the past 22 months, Terry has been in our Saigon bureau, reporting the war in Viet Nam. Yet of all his assignments, says Terry, "the most fascinating - and in some ways frustrating - was reporting the new black militancy in Viet Nam for our story this week. The subject is clearly one of the military's touchiest...
...well over 400 blacks; he talked with jet pilots who took him along on their strike missions, with airborne troops who carried him into the A Shau Valley assault that led to Hamburger Hill, with Marines on patrol in the DMZ, with the first black Army general of this war and with a black battalion commander who choppered him into firefights...
RICHARD NIXON cannot be called a hawk on the Viet Nam war. He wants the U.S. out, and he would prefer to bargain toward the exit rather than fight his way there. He has begun to reduce the American force level in Viet Nam. In May the President put forward a conciliatory negotiating position, inviting the Communists to discuss it seriously. Yet the impasse and killing continue. If presidential ferocity is not to blame, perhaps a kind of optimism...
...undergraduates whose youth is being robbed. They are right, my romantic heroes, they should not be at Harvard, it is forcing them to make compromises, it is squeezing the life out of them. Maybe the university will have to recognize this, and change its requirements until the war ends...
...right, say it is a poor start. Say further, if you will, that the twentieth century has become a horror. Agreed that the "Age of Longing," the age of the Cold War and all that phrase connotes is hardly an age worth living in, let alone preparing for by the hard study and effort...