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A tiny street near Palo Alto in an unincorporated part of San Mateo County is one of the few relics of the days when the area was a hotbed of anti-Vietnam War sentiment, groovy rock music and experimental drugs.
The newly-released material reveals the breathtaking – and probably illegal – lengths the agency went to in the late 1960s and 70s, in an attempt to try to hold back the rising tide of anti-Vietnam war sentiment.
In the event, only Russia and Ukraine, where cold war sentiment had prevented the comics from taking root, and South Korea, where locally based US forces are unpopular, opted for decapitation.
If a book on those towering World War II generals Dwight Eisenhower, George Marshall and Douglas MacArthur had been published in the late 1960s or early '70s, at the zenith of anti-Vietnam War sentiment, many readers would have found it (in a catchphrase of the time) "not relevant".
But, war sentiment in the public is a bit more nuanced.
What's more unsettling is the alignment of American Revolution themes with pre-Civil War sentiment and climate.
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These final results seem out of kilter with the UK's anti-war sentiment in particular.
At this point, in 1966, the anti-war sentiment on campus was just beginning to build.
The scale of anti-war sentiment surged globally as demonstrations became a worldwide phenomenon.
In Britain growing anti-war sentiment was strengthened by the killing of five soldiers by a "rogue" Afghan policeman.
Photos from the Vietnam war – of the My Lai massacre, for instance – undoubtedly influenced anti-war sentiment.
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