Word: area
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even more difficult and painful assignment than usual for our Saigon bureau. "A mantle of almost complete secrecy descended on American officialdom in Viet Nam, both military and civilian," cabled Bureau Chief Marsh Clark. Nevertheless, Clark and his staff provided intensive coverage of the events in their area. Correspondent Burt Pines pursued the psychological aspects with doctors and chaplains at U.S. Army headquarters in Long Binh, while Stringer Harold Ellithorpe, a Viet Nam veteran, contributed the comments of Red Cross officials plus his own observations on brutality in the war. Correspondent Bob Anson, bucking stormy monsoon weather, flew...
...direct combat with any large numbers of the enemy. Trained together in Hawaii, they had been in Viet Nam only one month. Yet as part of Task Force Barker, their assignment in March was a fearsome one: to clear the Viet Cong out of Quang Ngai province?an area long known as "the cradle of revolution" in Viet Nam. The province had produced and harbored some of the Viet Minh's most effective fighters against the French. It had even been the target of the very first U.S. assault in the war. That was Operation Starlight, in which Marines claimed...
Griffin added that the University's statement that it could not promise to hire 20 per cent black construction workers was insufficient. He said that despite Harvard's claim that qualified black construction workers in the Boston area number only five or six per cent of the total work force, the United Community Construction Workers in Boston could supply the necessary number of skilled...
...important to realize that we don't have to start from scratch. There are a number of organizations and groups in the area that exist for the very purpose we are talking about. I don't know them all; maybe this will help them get in touch and cooperate with one another. I can only name a few and tell you what they're planning...
...other small-scale things we can do. Many people have suggested ideas, and others can no doubt suggest more. For instance, we can volunteer to help the Cambridge Welfare Services, which badly needs assistance. Even a talk or a visit with the old and sick people in the area would cheer them tremendously. Some need help buying groceries and getting coal or firewood. And it would take no great effort to help them...