Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that same luncheon table that Johnson began to order the CIA to pay more attention to the Viet Nam War protest groups and their foreign contacts. Johnson was convinced that the Communists were pouring money into the antiwar movement in the U.S. Helms kept going back to Johnson and telling him that it was not so, that the CIA could not find the connection. One day Johnson waggled his big finger at the men around him and complained: "I just don't understand why you can't find out about all that foreign money that is behind those...
...main social base--that was why forced-draft urbanization was such an effective strategy. Though military tactics were the only ones by which a Saigon government primarily representing South Vietnam's landlords and small business class could hope to dominate the country, it seemed as though the American antiwar dissent evoked by Vietnamese resistance might have forced the main pillar of any Saigon attack out from under...
...Harvard with a rich wife (Singer sewing machines) and an activist's belief in redistributing wealth. At the time of the purchase, press observers expected early trouble for the former owner and still editor, Gilbert Harrison, 59, a high-minded, unabrasive, older-style liberal and leader in the antiwar and "Dump L.B.J." movements...
Thanks to his antiwar record, Miki was able to remain active in politics during the U.S. occupation. Since the war he has held ten Cabinet posts, serving competently, although demonstrating no particular brilliance. As Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1968, Miki developed the "Asia-Pacific Concept," which envisaged a more active role for Japan in regional affairs. The Ministry of Finance is the only important portfolio he has not held, which could be a serious liability as he tries to develop economic programs...
...Jane Alpert, 27, last week surrendered to federal authorities in New York City after living on the lam for 4½ years. She had jumped bail after her conviction in 1970 for conspiring to bomb Manhattan buildings as part of the extreme left's antiEstablishment, anti-corporation, antiwar crusade...