Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifty-two years ago this month, in my freshman year at Harvard, I was drilling with an ROTC unit; and a year later was shipped to France in the Signal Corps. On Nov, 10, 1918, in a concrete bunker near near the front, we received a radio message that a ceasefire would begin on the following morning at 11 o'clock. On that morning, two others in our outfit and I walked east along the road toward Metz--and suddenly we say a group of German soldiers...
Sensible as such an approach seems, it has been impossible until now, in part because of South Viet Nam's refusal to meet with representatives of the N.L.F. However, the Nixon Administration, through Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, has been applying heavy pressure on President Thieu to modify his position, and last week he did. Calling foreign correspondents to the presidential palace, Thieu announced: "We are ready to have private talks with the N.L.F., if they like...
...course for extricating the nation from the longest war in its history. The timing was right, for at week's end Nixon flew off to California to continue the questioning in person. Meeting him there in a Pacific beach house at San Clemente were Ambassador to Saigon Ellsworth Bunker and the deputy U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Andrew Goodpaster. Accompanying the President was his chief foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger, who boarded Air Force One carrying the thick black notebooks of analysis that hold Nixon's emerging Viet Nam policy...
...Nixon's decision not to resume bombing North Viet Nam in retaliation for the current offensive by the Communists represents an important policy decision not to turn the clock back in Viet Nam, even though the South Vietnamese government is urging the bombing of Hanoi and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has added his weight to their plea...
...everybody bothers to examine the watermark on letters they receive. But Chelsea House's Dr. Fred Israel is the curious type, and this was a special letter-from U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam Ellsworth Bunker, who was writing on embassy stationery to order a copy of the 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue. Israel held the paper up to the light and was startled to see a turreted fortress emblazoned with the word Conqueror. In a letter acknowledging the order, Dr. Israel added this P.S.: "I noticed the watermark on your stationery, and I am wondering...