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U.S. military GHQ, McNamara and Taylor first got a daylong briefing from 30 embassy, CIA and military officers. Then the two VIPs set out aboard Harkins' C-54 for four days of on-site inspection in the boondocks. They began their tour in the north, where the war is...
Clad in open-necked suntans and Army clodhoppers, with Harkins always at his side, the poker-faced McNamara would begin by hearing from the local Vietnamese commander, then he would sit down before the U.S. detachment, firing incisive questions and scribbling notes in his lefthanded script on a white pad...
When the NAACP does decide to act it often makes serious mistakes, largely as a result of its faulty understanding of how the white community operates. For instance several months ago a group was formed to discuss job possibilities with the Chamber of Commerce here. However, there was never a...
The Organization of American States had sent investigating teams twice to Haiti, yet many nations were loath to impose sanctions. Intervention is a nasty word in Latin America, and memories of the Marine occupation of Haiti from 1915-34 are still fresh. In Washington Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of...
Something big was in the wind. At Palm Beach, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger called a special press briefing for 5:30 p.m. A television reporter asked if it would be worth having a TV line stand by, at a cost of $1,200. Indeed it would, assured Salinger...