Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...1960s came the U.S. concept of "strategic hamlets," which were meant to fortify rural areas to protect peasants from Communist attack. By 1966 President Johnson was referring to pacification as "the other war," or "the struggle to win the hearts and minds of the people." Whatever its name, the object of pacification for nearly two decades has been to wrest rural areas from Viet Cong control and bring them under the aegis of the Saigon government. With U.S. troops continuing their withdrawal-President Nixon last week announced that the troop level would decline by another...
...must never feel as though she is being singled out for her individuality, her good spirits, or her charm. A street confrontation is never personal; it is always, in Buber's terms, an I-It relationship, never I-Thou. The woman must always be made to feel like an object under appraisal. Slim and rich, like a good cigarette. Soft, like a pair of slippers. Sleek...
...most controversial recorded sightings of an unidentified flying object-one in which a man was killed-has been revealed to have been a case of an Air Force Pilot chasing a Navy Weather ballon...
...evidence of the unfitness of a military agency to serve as UFO control, Menzel mentioned the Godman sighting, in which an Air Force pilot, Robert Mantell, was sent up in an Air Force plane to track an unidentified flying object which had been sighted near Godman Air Force Base in Kentucky...
Mantell followed the object above the altitude which his aircraft could maintain, blacked out from lack of oxygen, and then crashed and died, Menzel said...