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Two directors of a relief operation yesterday expressed optimism about the future of Cambodia at a Kennedy School of Government press briefing.
John Connally emerged from a briefing at the State Department to declare: "I have a greater sense of foreboding than I had when I came in." He charged that Carter had followed "a policy of appeasement" toward the Soviet Union. Campaigning in New Hampshire, the Texan had earlier claimed that...
Briefing Senators on the new strategy, Defense Secretary Harold Brown emphasized the growing need for the U.S. to be able, should it choose, to bring military power to bear rapidly overseas. "In some cases," said Brown, "that might be to turn the tide of battle. In other cases -we would...
To try to smooth out his jumbled syntax, Kennedy's staff has put together thick black briefing binders filled with direct, simple answers to questions that may arise. "I feel more comfortable on the podium now," says Kennedy and indeed he sometimes strikes a certain rhythm in his basic...
For all the red-carpet treatment, the President's wife spent the bulk of her visit touring a series of relief centers devoted to the three different kinds of refugees created by Indochina's overlapping, unending wars: Cambodians, Laotians and the primarily Vietnamese "boat people." Her first stop...