Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...successes, students often regard very differently. Reducing the troop level in Viet Nam by sometime in 1971 to something over 200,000 men seems to many in government a formidable achievement. The President so proclaims it. Yet to the young, who face the draft and think on the time scale of youth, these withdrawals seem wholly inadequate. They are not seeking to avoid personal danger. Rather, they abhor personal involvement in a war they perceive as "immoral...
...Tombalbaye called for French intervention under a defense agreement signed when Chad gained independence from France in 1960. This intervention, now in its second year, is causing increased embarrassment in Paris where President Pompidou has been accused of left-wing socialist leader Francois Mitterand of engaging in a small-scale Vietnam...
First, because full-scale repression is in the offing with camps and the abrogation of all freedom of speech and assembly, radicals cannot afford to further narrow their own base. This will surely happen if a fringe aimlessly vents its hostility. Any group action that is undertaken has to be clearly readable-we're not. after all, talking about cheap thrills-and has to center around definite and explicit issues that more liberal groups can at least sympathize with. To insure the liberal sympathy that makes repression more costly and difficult, actions have to be infused with an unmistakable political...
...windy Aberdare Hills. Shivering in the 45° air, Actor Stewart was inspired to write a poem about it-demonstrating that Euterpe is not his muse. Sample: "They've never known the temperature/Thermometers just fail./ For, when exposed, the mercury/ Just sinks below the scale...
...following month two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During the debate over nuclear morality that followed, Groves wrote in Now It Can Be Told: "The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II. While they brought death and destruction on a horrifying scale, they averted even greater losses-American, English and Japanese...