Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frankly biased account, Vietnam, "ought not to be the concern of those who oppose our presence there." A far different approach was adopted by Novelist John Updike, in a letter to the New York Times last week. "Anyone not a rigorous pacifist," he wrote, "must at least consider the argument that this war, evil as it is, is the lesser of available evils, intended to forestall worse wars...
Johnson has everything to gain by succumbing to this pressure. By stopping the bombing he will rob his critics of their strongest argument. But, argue the hawks, there is no reason to stop the bombing. A halt would not bring Hanoi to the conference table; it would only result in increased American casualties as the North Vietnamese take advantage of the pause...
...easy part is over for the Federation of Teaching Fellows. Faced with an Administration that is politely but firmly uncooperative, the young organization begins the academic year with the growing conviction that argument alone may not be enough to achieve its stated goals of improving the pay and working conditions of Harvard's teaching fellows...
Councillor Walter J. Sullivan was unimpressed with the argument. He said he had seen the first 100 of the 985 pages of signatures and that "better than 50 per cent" were invalid. The Vote on Vietnam spectators greeted his statement with hisses...
THERE IS a good deal of argument these days over the relevance and validity of the Munich analogy. Dean Rusk argues that the loss of South Vietnam might mean the first step toward global, nuclear war just as surely as the Franco-British capitulation to Hitler in 1938 hastened the outbreak of World...