Word: tru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once we realize the possibilities, our power, as men of action, is enor mous. It is tru-300 people can 'shut down" (i.e., cut down the attendance of classes at) a university like Harvard, or even Harvard itself. The bigger a big corporate organism gets, the more that organism demands that its members acquiesce (even though it demands benignly). In a situation like this, men who are willing to act will have the greatest impact, because their actions are so unusual, and because their opponents will not attack them. A big corporate organism is also easier to attack because...
...Persian Gulf is an important neighborhood in today's world. Britain is planning to complete its withdrawal from the island of Bahrain and the Tru-cial States along the Gulf in 1971, and so the frail but oil-rich little sheikdoms provide a tempting target. Supporters of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser seek to dominate the desert land; the Russians at present need no oil, but would like to deny the oil to the West. Soviet ships now ply the Indian Ocean, and early this year nosed into the Persian Gulf on courtesy visits. With such forces...
Quoting from "Who am I?", a poem of the 1960's by Tru Vu, Bich said, "I am neither Communist or Nationalist--I am a Vietnamese...isn't that enough...
Toes & Barbed Wire. Up the coast at Thach Tru some 320 miles northeast of Saigon, a battalion of South Vietnamese Rangers (backed by a company of Popular Forces) made a gutty stand even without loudspeakers. Hit by a full Viet Cong regiment, the Rangers threw back three concerted assaults that left their wire festooned with Red bodies. The V.C. timed their attacks to coincide with lulls in U.S. air support, but they reckoned without the 5-in. guns of the U.S. Navy. Into range at flank speed loped the U.S. destroyer O'Brien, spitting rapid-fire salvos from...
...troops has taken up enough slack to give the plucky but war-weary South Vietnamese the pause they needed after a tough summer. At Dau Tieng the government regulars stood and fought it out for four hours without losing a single piece of equipment to the Reds. At Thach Tru they stood up and charged against heavy odds. There has been a noticeable decrease in the South Vietnamese desertion rate since the Americans began arriving in quantity. Says General William C. Westmoreland: "The presence of the American troops has had a tonic effect on the Vietnamese. They are more aggressive...