Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...healthy in Holland was likely to be questioned by the Nazis. Boldly, Lind-Overbeek escaped to Germany. He worked, drank, survived bombardment, whored and eventually landed a surreal job carrying reports from an industrialist's factory, which did metallurgical research, to the German Air Ministry. When the war ended, he set off, walking, for Holland. At the border, he molted another skin, persuading British officials that he was really Jakov Chaklan, born in Palestine. With a new identity card, he journeyed to Marseille and smuggled himself aboard a ship loaded with refugees bound for Israel...
...Capital is peaceful but tense as tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators deluge the city for further protests Friday and Saturday...
Protestors are predominantly young, but include many GI's and veterans. Each carries a placard with the name of one American killed in Vietnam or one Vietnamese village destroyed during the war. Marchers also carry candles and paper cups...
...unprecedented move, President Nixon this afternoon visited the House of Representatives and the Senate to thank Congressmen for their support of his efforts to end the war...
...number of students took issue in particular with Calkins's view that the chief goal of American policy is to reduce the chances of a nuclear war...