Word: approachement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1950?it was the French-Viet Minh war then?the level of U.S. participation in the conflict is going down, not up. So is the draft call, which is dropping more than 3,000 in July to the lowest monthly figure so far this year. Richard Nixon's approach may fail. The effect on the Paris negotiations may be nil (see following story). The North Vietnamese could choose to increase rather than reduce their military effort. Despite these caveats, it is also possible that Nixon's tactics could start a downward trend on the violence scale...
...Nixon approach carries other concomitant difficulties. The effectiveness of many South Vietnamese combat units remains in doubt, and no one knows for sure whether they will be able to maintain the present military balance as U.S. troops are withdrawn. One South Vietnamese official recently told Secretary of State William Rogers: "It's like a man learning to ride a bicycle. We think we can do it, but you never know until the man running alongside takes his hand away." Thanks to better training, better equipment and massive support from U.S. air and artillery, the South Vietnamese are improving. But they...
...revolutionize ward culture" had an unmistakable impact. Told to deal more firmly with whimsical requests, which are actually signs of anxiety, the nurses talked bluntly to troublesome patients. "Mrs. Jones," a nurse would say, "you really don't need that bedpan again, do you?" The free-and-easy approach had its understanding and mellow side. Sensing that a patient was particularly troubled, a nurse would ask if she could help, even if her charge had not rung...
Klagsbrun concedes that his upbeat approach, which has been adopted as a regular part of the hospital's procedures, does not satisfactorily deal with the agonizing time immediately before death. "This period," he says, "is still an unknown entity from the psychological point of view." Even so, he may have made some unexpected progress. With life rapidly slipping from her, an old Italian woman called to a nurse one day. "It is the end, isn't it?" she asked. The nurse nodded, sat next to the old woman and held her hand. "I don't want...
...best, this approach is explicit and visual. A bishop's red robes billow out on crinoline hoops, a cartoon of gluttony, indicating that the church would feed on men's lives to fatten its authority. The foot soldier who delivers the tenderly piteous speech that includes "I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle" is a Negro, suggesting that the king rules by exploitive oppression. When the list of the French dead is read, each dead man rises with a blood-splotched white mask to stand at the footlights in a solid phalanx...