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Gunness said last night that he plans major changes for the College's financial aid system. "The most important thing we'll do," he said, "is to conduct to see how effective our efforts have been in the past few years. There been a tremendous build-up in the and we want to find out just at has resulted from...
...economic success of Japan today reminds many Asians of the pre-World War II build-up, and the less successful nations are both fearful and jealous of Japan's growing power. Their reluctance to accept Japanese leadership was subtly expressed when most governments politely rejected the Japanese peace corps proposal; it was expressed more dramatically when Japan began negotiations to establish diplomatic relations with Korea, and mobs rioted in Seoul for five days to protest President Chung Ree Park's friendly response...
Negotiations under such a strategy would undoubtedly be drawn out, but this would also allow time for American public opinion to cool on Vietnam as it did on Laos. Then President Johnson could accept whatever accord was reached without endangering his own position. Moreover the American build-up now taking place in Thailand could continue. This would minimize the blow to American prestige if the U.S. had to leave Vietnam completely...
What form the American build-up in Thailand will take has been in no way predetermined, and one thing one can hope is that the President will have learned from the Vietnam experience. Perhaps the U.S. should support the Thai government only insofar as its own military strength is sufficient to support it. There is no necessity for the United States to repeat all of the steps it took in Vietnam...
...Enough. "I've been a desk chairman," says Bliss. "I don't profess to be an orator. I've always felt it my duty to build up the candidates, not Ray Bliss." The national build-up job that he faces now is monumental. The Republicans' rank-and-file structure, demoralized and in disarray after Barry Goldwater's leaden leadership, must be almost completely remodeled and reorganized. Dean Burch, inexperienced and fanatically loyal to Barry's right wing, purged some of the National Committee's best staff people on the ground-real or imagined...