Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perspectives, which has a press run of 15,000, is published by the American Friends of Vietnam, a decade-old organization of 150 concerned citizens* with varying political views, united in the belief that Viet Nam should be spared Communist dictatorship. The contributors, mostly academicians or Government officials with considerable experience in Viet Nam, have turned out well-researched articles on Communist control of the Viet Cong, on how North Viet Nam broke the Geneva agreements. But the magazine offers no dogmatic solution of its own. "We want to show that extremes are not the alter natives in Viet...
...individuals decide what war they're going to fight in," Lieutenant General Lewis B. Hershey told the Law School Forum. Only opposition to war in general "by training and belief," he said will be "paid some attention...
...Question of Belief...
...Cuban U.N. official assured a U.S. delegate when the lights blew. "I was right here all the time." Some New Yorkers, claiming that they had seen a satellite pass over at the moment the lights failed, argued that the Russians had done it again. Many clung stubbornly to the belief that it was all a Government-ordered test to see if Americans could stand up to an air raid...
...Obviously," Mansfield commented, "the law is way out of its depth." He went on to point out that in the case of an agnostic pacifist, Daniel Seeger, the Court threw out the Supreme Being requirement and put on a broad interpretation on "religious belief." But the decision in Seeger's favor specifically refused to commit the court to exempting an atheist pacifist...