Word: slaught
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everyone is against the regime. Student anti-communists, young and ambitious army officers, and tradition minded villagers terrified of the on-slaught of urbanization form the base of the regime's supporters. Greeks are very certain that this is not the regular kind of conservative reaction to the danger of a Communist take-over. They point out that the Rightist party of Greece does not support the regime, although certainly some of their support comes from individuals of that party. Even those supporters grant that the junta has been extraordinarily clumsy, but they think the colonels had the right idea...
...forests, rice fields and marsh es that ring Saigon, they wait. No one in the city knows exactly when they will come again, but everyone expects them. Saigon is bracing for a new on slaught by Communist troops, fearing that this time it may be even more pro longed and vicious than either the Tet or early May offensives. High-level defectors have said that a major Communist drive is in the making, and last week's relative silence on the battleground around the capital ominously underscored the point. As always when girding for a big campaign, the Communists...
...Rustin told a group of reporters that coalition of trade unions, religious groups, and students can be the spur to the faltering steps of the war on poverty. Putting the Freedom Budget into effect--the plan to spend $185 billion over the next ten years in a massive on- slaught against poverty -- should be the aim of the coalition, Rustin said...