Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government has wandered into the talks without a single specific disarmament proposal. Gerald Smith, the director of the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and our chief negotiator at Helsianki, has only the authority to cast out "ideas." Based on the Soviet reaction to the American ideas. he will draft proposals sometime in January or February. But the Soviets, headed by Vladimar Semyonoy, a Deputy Foreign Minister, are cagier for some kind of symbolic agreement, the earlier the better...
...mood of the demonstration was different from that of the main march carlier in the day when thousands wayed small American flags donated by the New Mobilization Committee, the march's sponsors. Dozens of NLF flags moved above the crowd as the front ranks pounded on the two-story high grey steel doors of the massive Justice Department building...
...thousands of fist-waving American students cheered as the flag of their country was lowered on Constitution Avenue. A similar American flag-lowering incident by Panamanian students in January, 1964, produced an international crisis. Now, the students cheered as the NLF flag was raised on the flagpole. Many in the crowd eyed the machine gun nests atop the Justice Department warily, hoping that the guns wouldn't he used on them as they had been on Panamanian and Dominican students in the past...
...meantime, other police formed a line across Constitution Avenue to block the main body of the demonstrators. Some of these hauled down the American flag from the Justice Department's pole and ran up their Viet Cong flag. Police then took it down...
...Defense Department had had accurate means of determining how the North Vietnamese people and the Viet Cong would react to an American troop build-up, Deutsch said, the Pentagon could have predicted the trend toward escalation and avoided it. Instead, Washington based its policy on the mistaken idea that large numbers of guerillas would desert rather than face a long war, be added. In that instance, Deutsch explained, the Pentagon could have furthered the interests of peace through the application of social science research...