Word: ethnicities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role will also change, and U.S. personnel attached to South Vietnamese units will become liaison officers coordinating the use of the U.S. support forces remaining. GREEN BERET strength, now 3,500, is expected to remain unchanged. The Green Berets have been highly successful in organizing the Montagnards and other ethnic minorities, as well as in the conduct of intelligence operations in Laos, Cambodia and North Viet Nam. Their work will take on increased importance as U.S. troops withdraw. Nor is any reduction likely in the 6,200 military and 1,200 civilian personnel who make up the rural-pacification teams...
...created it in the first place. More important and more startling, as this pair of unevenly matched biographies show, the Al Smith myth entirely misses the man's vital contribution to the art and science of government in the U.S. For it was through Smith that ethnic minorities in great American cities first found national voice and national influence...
Paul M. Deac, executive vice president of the National Confederation of American Ethnic Groups, which says it represents 18 million foreign-born and first-and second-generation Americans, expressed the especially virulent outrage of the poorer Middle Americans. "The professional liberals let the genie out of the bottle?racial hatred, lawlessness," says Deac. The backlash today is not so much against blacks per se as against black militancy and the white intellectuals: "The Moratorium was a stab in the back to our boys on the firing lines. Our families don't have long-haired brats?they'd tear the hair...