Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Justice Department has threatened to use force to keep demonstrators off Pennsylvania Avenue during the massive anti-war march in Washington on November...
Meanwhile at Harvard, the Vietnam Moratorium group here has sent a letter signed by seven professors to all Faculty members. The letter calls for their united support against the war and reminds them of the Moratorium days November...
...kills his executioner after being convicted of a murder that he did not commit. Juice concerns a wealthy businessman fighting the machinery mobilized to exonerate him of the drunken-driving death of a pedestrian. Now, in his sixth novel, Becker, 42, turns back to the Civil War. In an excellent period morality tale, a Union Army officer attempts to save the life of a teen-age Confederate boy who shot him during a skirmish...
...impact of the book is a shocking and melancholy reminder that men, in war or peace, always must go on living with an accumulation of such crimes. Becker quotes the real Judge William Martin Dickson of Cincinnati, writing after the boy's death: "But why revive these harrowing incidents of the war? As well ask, why tell the story of the war at all? If it is to be told, let us have the whole. Let the young not be misled." Like Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Becker's book explores the whole...
...Left and revisionist historians have argued in recent years that, in fact, Acheson and Truman fired the opening shots of the cold war, that such a policy as the Truman Doctrine was the equivalent of bombarding Fort Sumter. Acheson is aware of the argument, and like the careful lawyer he is, presents a formidable brief for the defense. Soviet troops had occupied the northern provinces of Iran; to force them out strong American pressure was needed. The Truman Doctrine, which combined military and economic aid, was developed only to counter Soviet designs upon the faltering regimes of Greece and Turkey...