Word: whats
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The words were couched in a soft Southern drawl, but the message was sharp and hard as steel: "When we say you have to get started, that is what we mean-tomorrow." Thus did Federal Judge Griffin B. Bell, in a conference with school officials last week, lay to rest...
Violence is not expected in Mississippi, however, no thanks to the Administration. What the Administration approach fails to recognize is the ability of most white Southerners to adjust, once they find desegregation inevitable. A.F. Summer, Mississippi's attorney general, faced up to that last week, saying that he was...
SOUTH VIET NAM'S President Nguyen Van Thieu has never been a demonstrative sort, but last week he was clearly elated by President Nixon's address about the war. "It is the greatest and most brilliant speech I have ever known a United States President to make," said...
Enemy Attacks. As an indication of the improving situation, Nixon noted that North Vietnamese infiltration is less than 20% of what it was a year ago. But American military experts warned that infiltration, which has declined in the past, can suddenly increase. At present, there are unsettling reconnaissance reports that...
President Nixon pointed to the current low U.S. casualty rate as a sign that the war was winding down. In Saigon last week, the U.S. command reported that October's total of 409 battle deaths was the lowest monthly toll since 1966. Nixon stressed that a low "level of...