Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as the U.S. has been fighting in Southeast Asia, spasmodic crises in the war zone and frequent peaks of protest at home have drawn a wildly fluctuating fever chart. The Nixon Administration now faces a period of high temperature and uncertain remedy...
Rallies and Fasts. There were other stirrings on the antiwar front. In Boston, Governor Francis Sargent signed a bizarre bill that had passed the Massachusetts legislature by respectable majorities. The law provides that no Massachusetts serviceman can be compelled to go to a foreign combat zone in the absence of a congressional declaration of war. Three servicemen promptly volunteered to test the new law, which is certain to make an odd footnote to American constitutional history...
...attack was against an artillery base near the Cambodian border, where a direct hit on an ammunition storage bunker killed more than 20 Americans-the highest single loss since May 1968. After a brief pause, the Communists at week's end renewed their attacks, mainly along the Demilitarized Zone and the Cambodian border. An eight-hour battle near Con Thien represented the heaviest fighting along the DMZ in nearly five months...
Though the Crimson had to sottle for five goals in the third perod it dominated play in that quarter more than it had all afternoon. Harvard kept the ball in the M.I.T. zone for nearly the full time, and on the few occasions that the Engineers cleared the ball the Crimson quickly got it back, twice on nice clears by Don Gogel...
Last Thursday, Gov. Frances W. Sargent signed into law a bill stating that no Massachusetts serviceman can be ordered into a combat zone outside the United States without a Declaration of War by Congress...