Editorials Our Opinions Numbers game with U. S. manpower in Vietnam
The piece examines Westmoreland's charts showing a manpower decline from 285000 to 242000 and reports privately estimated enemy strength may exceed 400000. It questions official disclosure timing and critiques claims of progress toward victory, calling such pronouncements ludicrous amid 400000 soldiers.
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Vietnam
Washington
William C. Westmoreland
New York Times
Westmoreland
The
Times
Dean Rusk
Page urged to stay in lane as education chief
The article questions Ray Page the Illinois superintendent of public instruction for advising colleges on draft protests and advocating expulsions. It argues his actions blur lines with higher education policy, draw political attention, and create public confusion, urging him to focus on elementary and secondary schooling in Springfield.
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Ray Page
Illinois Public Colleges and Universities
Page
Springfield
Powell
Bahaman
Bimini
Svetlana Alliluyeva
Joseph Stalin
Brijesh Singh
India
China
Mao Tse-tung
Liu Shao-chi
Central Committee
Teng Hsiao-ping
Mao
Peking
Hong Kong-Canton
Chou En-lai
Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Cao Ky
Thieu
Cost benefit trial of Lusk Creek reservoir proposal
A reader questions the Lusk Creek project in Pope County urging careful cost benefit analysis. The letter weighs who gains from funding large tourist facilities, the loss of 19 homes, and the value of scenic and biological assets, while noting a public petition against the take. The writer cites opposition to loss of homes and land and stresses the need to balance progress with local impact.
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Southern Illinoisan
Lusk Creek
Pope County
United States Forest Service
Chicago
Top News of 1967 Voted by AP Papers and Stations
The Vietnam War tops AP list for 1967 with Arab–Israeli war and Newark and Detroit race riots close behind. Other major items include the Apollo fire deaths at Cape Kennedy, Kosygin and Johnson meeting at Glassboro, and Britain’s pound devaluation.
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Mary Campbell
Associated Press
United States
Newark
Detroit
LBJ
Dak To
Ia Drang Valley
White House
Pentagon
San Francisco
New York
U. S
Suez Canal
Elath
Port Said
Egypt
National Guard
Watts
Army
Floyd McKissick
Cape Kennedy
Air Force
Virgil I. Grissom
Edward H. White II
Navy
Omar
Roger B. Chaffee
Moon
Alexei Kosygin
America
U. N
Middle East
Johnson
Washington
Glassboro
N. J
Britain
House
Adam Clayton Powell
U.S
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Greece
Papadopoulos
William E. Hopkins
Southern Illinois University
Baltimore
Yvette
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Gulf of Aqaba
Israel
Sinai Desert
Virgil Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
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