Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summarized by another opposition newspaper, Cong Luan, in an editorial on the presidential elections scheduled for October: "As to what candidate has the greatest chance for success, all Vietnamese agree with the Vice President [Nguyen Cao Ky] that the most trustworthy prophet is none other than [U.S. Ambassador] Ellsworth Bunker." Translation: Bunker knows because Bunker decides. A cartoon in Saigon's Tin Sang daily summarizes a widespread feeling; it shows Ambassador Bunker, called "the Father of the Country," rocking a cradle labeled "Viet...
TWENTY-SIX years after Adolf Hitler shot himself to death in his Berlin bunker, the face of the late, unlamented dictator has become an acute embarrassment to the Austrian government. Der Führer, whose likeness appeared on at least 15 different stamps in dozens of denominations, commissioned a special issue for his 54th birthday in 1943. The Austrian State Printing Office, a Nazi enterprise at that time, printed the stamps in Vienna. No one knows how many went into circulation. But when the Third Reich fell two years later, some 20 million remained, and they have been gathering dust...
...whatever Phil lacked in credibility, he made up for in humor. One of the passengers' many chuckles came at the Bunker Hill Monument when Phil said. "It takes about 10 or 15 minutes to walk to the top, ten or 15 minutes to walk to the bottom and, as I recall, ten days to recover." Whatever...
Fair Fight. As an apparent indication of Washington's concern, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker invited Ky to lunch last week and reportedly urged him to remain in the race, assuring him that the U.S. desired a fair fight. But many Vietnamese and Americans alike wonder whether that is really what Washington wants. They are deeply concerned that the U.S. has become over-identified with Thieu. Accordingly, four former AID employees have launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington to reinforce U.S. neutrality during the Vietnamese elections. They advocate creation of a U.S. congressional commission to "observe and study...
...interpretation, however, is a careless reading of Washington's mood. Last week New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits warned in a Saigon press conference that the narcotics scandal was "the kind of issue that could upset everything"-meaning the continuation of U.S. military and economic aid. Bunker, in a strongly worded note, told Thieu much the same thing...