Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after a chat with Jewish War Veterans Commander Malcolm Tarlov, Johnson even found himself in a brief brouhaha with the nation's Jews, over 80% of whom supported him in 1964. During the talk, the President expressed regret at what he felt was a lack of support for his Viet Nam policy among Jewish leaders. As reported in the press, it sounded as if he were criticizing the whole Jewish community and, worse still, threatening to link U.S. aid to Israel with Jewish support on Viet Nam on a quid pro quo basis. The tempest subsided only...
Reaching into the past for the Guards, Mao had probably also reached into the past for his plan of action. He had brought terror of a new and terrible sort to his hapless land. Whether its reign would be brief, not even Mao could answer...
...provoke-represent a fissure within the top leadership? Perhaps. But the more likely explanation lay in the peculiar psychology of the Guards' creator. Years ago Mao reflected that a revolution is "not the same as inviting people to dinner or writing an essay or painting a picture. A brief reign of terror," he mused, was necessary to make a revolution work...
...secular mass media as just another news event, "it was brought down to human size and seen in the context of real life." Moreover, the evidence of elderly bishops openly challenging hallowed traditions inspired lay Catholics, young and old, to re-examine their faith on their own. In brief, the spirit of the council made membership in the church a matter of choice rather than inheritance...
...rocket's nose was a complex instrument package designed by Physicist Herbert Gursky and containing a sensitive X-ray scanner and a small camera pointed at Scorpio for 55 sec. of the brief ballistic flight. By measuring the changing intensity of X rays detected by the scanner and coordinating the scanner with the camera, Giacconi's group was able to locate Scorpio's X-ray source about 1,000 times as accurately as any previous studies. They also determined the angular size of the radiating object itself, and concluded that the X-ray source would probably appear...