That followed the 1968 tet offensive, the u. S. Media documented a growing crisis. Frequent stories of desertion, of drug use, combat, challenges to legitimate authority, along with reports of scandals and atrocities, most infamous of which was the massacre. And internal military documents tell much the same story. So in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we suggested that things were different in the period before 1968. So as we Start Talking about posttet, id start by giving you a quick picture of pretet. And the most common claim thats not going to work. The most common claim that originated in the military and circulated through the press is that in vietnam, the United States fielded the best trained, best equipped, best disciplined force in its history. A force with very high morale. Heres general westmoreland speaking in may 1966. Their performance is exceeding my expectations. I have also the journalist peter arnett in 1966 saying, morale is remarkably high. A
Soccer the lawsuit filed by 28 womens players accuses their employer the u. S. Soccer federation of institutionalized gender discrimination after the world cup finals the 2 sides will begin mediation with consequences that may as well beyond the stadium we understand that the eyes are kind of on us and its kind of in a magnify situation the fight for equal pay for american women have all hmong history off the field in fact equal pay has been required by law for more than 50 years but still today an American Woman on average makes 0. 80 on the dollar compared to men the case of this team which wins everything which is more viewers and fans of she makes more money just sort of puts the lie to all the typical justifications about why its ok. Pay women less than men the situation is worse in some other parts of the globe with a reported half of all professional Women Football players earning no salary at all but at least here in the u. S. There are signs of change just ask these boys 2. Ra
And that suggests titling it manpower and morale after tet rather than in vietnam, that something changed. After the 1968 tet offensive, the media documented a growing crisis, frequent stories of malaise, challenges to authority and reports of scandals and atrocities, the most infamous of which was the mai lai massacre. And internal military documents tell much the same story. So in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we are thinking about we suggested that things were different before 1968. As we Start Talking about post tet, i thought it would give you i thought i would give you a really quick picture of pretet. The most common claim that originated within the military and circulated through the press is that in vietnam the United States had fielded the besttrained, bestequipped, bestdisciplined force in its history, a force of very high morale. Here is general westmoreland speaking in 1966, their performance is exceeding my expectations. I have the journalist peter
U. N. Security council 3 days to present a unified response to the migrants. You could put this in the category of better late than never on wednesday the u. N. Security council met for more than 3 hours behind closed doors but was able to come up with a statement on the airstrike against the Migrant Detention Center in tripoli now they have done so and in addition to condemning the air raid the Security Council urges all sides in libya to commit to a cease fire it says lasting peace since the civility in libya will only come through Political Solutions and the also the council gave something of an admonition to other countries without naming any of them but telling him not to interfere in Libyan Affairs it said that the Council Called for full respect for the arms embargo by all Member States and called on all countries not to intervene in the conflict or take any measures that exacerbate it well there is growing concern over the safety of african migrants and refugees being held in t
Under the death all right were going to get a break go well be right back after a while it came a day after a magnitude 6. 4 quake along the same fault line shaking buildings and shutting down a highway strewn with rocks so. We brought here to piece the 1st earthquake ruptured a bit more in the 5. 4 this morning and were up here in moore now it is moving towards the northwest away from the metropolitan area as far as we can tell the u. S. Geological survey says theres a 5 percent chance a bigger quake will follow this is another earthquake everyone has a chance im trying to think if weve ever seen a situation with the 6. 47 and something even bigger and i cant think of one the epicenter of the Southern California quake was in the city of ridgecrest halfway between los vegas and los angeles were gathering intelligence and were taking action on multiple structure fires were gathering information weve got. Helicopter in the air. The city of ridgecrest and the surrounding areas. We got. Re