Word: warred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thinking man's nightmare, a bizarre Pied Piper, eliciting and pandering to the dark side of man's nature, augmenting the madness of war hysteria and all the while leading us down the road to violence, ignorance and brutality. MICHAEL STANFIELD San Francisco...
...silent majority" is becoming one of the Administration's catch phrases. Richard Nixon appealed to it on Nov. 3 to stand by his war policies. Its opposite, of course, is the unsilent minority, which Spiro Agnew, who has been running regular Thursday-night beat-the-press shows, defines as "an arrogant few" dissenters. Such constant reference to that magic line of 51% of the people-whether friends above it or opponents below it-may end up looking like a form of insecurity. After the Senate rejected Judge Clement Haynsworth for the Supreme Court, the President observed, naturally enough...
Nixon-who was elected President by a minority of the voters-is doubtless correct in saying that the majority supports him on the war, and it is an important fact. But to lean on that fact quite so heavily may not be the wisest form of leadership. The majority rules, and it should-but it is sometimes wrong and often fickle. What (it is intriguing to speculate) would the President do if his present majority should change its mind and turn against his policies? One thing, though: the President has not yet taken to carrying different opinion polls, Johnson-style...
...passed without notice when it occurred in mid-March 1968, at a time when the war news was still dominated by the siege of Khe Sanh. Yet the brief action at My Lai, a hamlet in Viet Cong-infested territory 335 miles northeast of Saigon, may yet have an impact on the war. According to accounts that suddenly appeared on TV and in the world press last week, a company of 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning and destroyed its houses, its livestock and all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal...
...survivors-all of them pro-V.C.-and half a dozen American veterans of the incident. Yet military men privately concede that stories of what happened at My Lai are essentially correct. If so, the incident ranks as the most serious atrocity yet attributed to American troops in a war that is already well known for its particular savagery...