Word: recently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Years of miserable stalemate have been accompanied by overblown pronouncements from Saigon and Washington about how well the war was going. Credibility gapped in the Johnson Administration, when cant phrases like "turning the corner in Viet Nam" and "light at the end of the tunnel" became bitter jokes. In recent months, however, U.S. officials-backed by scattered reports from perennially skeptical journalists -have cautiously begun to spread word that the situation on the ground in Viet Nam looks better than it has at any time since the U.S. buildup began...
...part of the combat load shows up in the fact that they are now taking consistently more than 80% of allied casualties. For the last week in November, U.S. deaths were down to 70, the lowest since the beginning of October. However, the enemy has been relatively quiescent in recent months; the effectiveness of Vietnamization so far has still to be seriously tested...
...acts of espionage or sabotage. In 1952, reacting to enormous pressure from the right, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath ordered six detention camps made ready. The camps have never been used as envisioned under the act,* but their very authorization has created among blacks and militant radicals in recent months a paranoia that they might...
...camps during World War II, has led the attack. Until last week, however, Inouye's cause seemed hopeless. "I was under the impression that Justice was against repeal," he says. Others who directly suggested a repeal of the camp provision to Attorney General John Mitchell in recent weeks came away with the same impression. So the Nixon request was something of a surprise, but one likely to meet with the approval of both houses of Congress...
...admitted last night that the reason for these precautions was the possible threat of another demonstration. "In view of what has happened in recent weeks, it seemed a sensible way to handle admission to the building," he said...