Word: supportable
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...seminars on the liberation of women. Groups are now operating in Turin, Milan, Genoa and Bologna. In November, the first of a series of public rallies will be held in Rome to discuss the problems, particularly the adoption of birth control and abortion bills. There are indications of popular support for some of the feminist goals. More Italian men than women seem to favor the divorce bill, and males often join Women's Lib types in carrying signs proclaiming DIVORCE PREVENTS CRIME and DIVORCE...
...Nixon Administration has pledged not to send U.S. ground troops into Cambodia again, and the Cooper-Church Amendment, which passed the Senate in June, would specifically prohibit direct U.S. air support to Cambodian troops. But near the embattled town of Skoun last week, an Associated Press reporter watched a Cambodian officer request-and get-an air strike by American F-100s, whose bombs landed a scant 300 yds. from the Cambodian positions. In Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird parried the inevitable inquiries about the U.S. air support with an exercise in semantics. The U.S. pilots were not providing "air support...
...recent weeks the Communists have had to make new adjustments to support even the guerrilla-style operations in South Viet Nam. Largely because of the Cambodian incursions, which upset the supply routes through the sanctuaries, the guerrilla effort that the Communists had once planned now requires a complex, three-sided strategy encompassing most of Indochina...
...government has not even attempted to establish a presence much beyond Phnom-Penh, Communist recruitment efforts in the countryside are thought to be going very well. Substantial aid from Thailand has yet to materialize, and Cambodian officials warn that their government could fall within six months without more U.S. support...
What makes O'Neill listen extra hard is the fact that he represents not only working-class voters but also 200,000 students on 34 campuses in the Boston area?the most collegiate district in Congress. The Johnson Administration got his early support on the Viet Nam War. Then, in 1967, O'Neill made a hawkish speech at Boston College, his alma mater, to a hostile young audience that included two of his children. Irked by one student questioner, he exploded: "I've had 43 briefings on the war from all the experts?Johnson, Westmoreland, Abrams, Bunker, Lodge, Rusk, McNamara?...