Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft is to eliminate it altogether. Ways to redeem Nixon's campaign pledge to seek an all-volunteer Army are under consideration by an advisory committee. So radical a change will be a long time in coming, and certainly nothing can be done until the Viet Nam war ends. The most that can be expected meanwhile is patchwork...
...sniper fire as they attempted to douse the flames, and outnumbered police watched helplessly at times as the street gangs rampaged. One man, trying to escape from his burning car, was thrown back into it by a howling mob, and died. By the time the four days of race war and civil strife had run their course, the General Hospital's morgue was so crowded that bodies were put into plastic bags and hung on ceiling hooks. Government officials, attempting to play down the extent of the disaster, insisted that the death toll was only 104. Western diplomatic sources...
...Penkovsky, 65. Despite the twelve deaths in 17 days, overall the mortality has been steady: 46 have died since the beginning of this year, only nine more than in the comparable period of 1968. Considering that Russia counted 10,000 generals in its army at the end of World War II, the close deaths of that many of them a quarter of a century later was curious but actuarially quite plausible. Old soldiers, after all, do die as well as fade away...
Israel's leaders purposely have never been precise in defining how much they intend to keep of the Arab territory their army conquered in the 1967 war. Now, however, the Cabinet's position is rapidly hardening. Israel's new frontiers, says Premier Golda Meir, must provide "no natural advantage to our neighbors" (see box). In strategic translation, that means that Israel intends to retain part of Jordan's West Bank, at least a measure of Syria's Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip and as yet unspecified portions of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Last week...
...find any difference, really. The only time he said anything new was immediately after the war, that great speech of his, when for a moment, I think, he was prepared to take the blame on himself. But I must say to his credit, he recovered very quickly and became true to himself again...