Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...find the suggestion that President Nixon is considering more raids on North Viet Nam's prison camps [Dec. 7] quite disturbing. Faced with Green Berets on the outside and hostile but unarmed prisoners on the inside, it is only logical to assume that the guards will attack their enemy at his weakest point by eliminating the prisoners. Such a horrible denouement would only serve to spotlight once again the combined brutality and stupidity which is the Viet Nam War. Would the epitaphs of the prisoners read, "We had to destroy them to save them...
...more forceful defender of that policy before Congress than was David Kennedy, a guileless Mormon who will move to a Cabinet-level job in international finance at the State Department. In terms of economic ideology, Connally is an enigma: he recently observed that the Administration's attack on inflation could not succeed without wage and price controls, but he has not said what he would do instead. Democratic liberals in Congress feel his appointment spells doom for serious tax reform and for any real commitment by the Administration to the goal of full employment. But to Wilbur Mills...
Auger was 49 when a heart attack forced him to retire in 1943. He left Stockton, bought a long, narrow 51 acre strip of land running between the shore and the coastal highway south of Santa Barbara, and started to work on his town. He built a roadside assortment of children's delights: merry-go-rounds, a zoo, a miniature train, donkey rides, toy stores, snack shops-all painted red and white and encrusted with Christmas decorations. Above the largest shop in the village, a 20-foot concrete Santa, his landmark, protruded from the chimney. Auger presided over...
Died. General Thomas S. Power, 65, retired Air Force commander who as boss of the Strategic Air Command from 1957 to 1964 provided the nuclear deterrent for three Presidents; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. Power was not a temporizer: he believed that war, once started, could only be halted by crushing force. He led the March 1945 fire-bomb raid on Tokyo that killed 84,000 Japanese, was a planner of the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and fashioned the peacetime SAC into the most devastating instrument of destruction ever known...
Died. Henry Varnum Poor, 82, muralist, ceramist, painter, architect and art teacher; of a heart attack; in New City, N.Y. Known first for his pottery, Poor in the mid-1930s took his brush to Washington, D.C., where he executed twelve panels for the Department of Justice building and a heroic mural entitled Conservation of American Wildlife for the Department of the Interior building. Before long he had developed such a following that in 1939, when Pennsylvania State College commissioned him to paint a 275-sq.-ft. fresco of Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act, the contract stipulated that the public...