Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other forces are at work as well. Because Nixon has concluded that the war cannot be won within a time span that the U.S. would tolerate, he cannot let himself be solely dependent on the Paris talks. If the meetings go on too long, he could decide on a unilateral cutback of American forces. This might keep U.S. dissatisfaction with the war below the boiling point...
...would Wagner leave his prosperous law practice for another shot at a man-killing job? Some cynics suggest he is really angling for the Senate nomination next year; he has always hankered for his late father's seat on Capitol Hill. Perhaps, like many career politicians, he cannot abide private life. Or perhaps he wants to protect his party from the candidacy of Novelist Norman Mailer, who has been threatening to seek the nomination with Jimmy Breslin, journalist, author and character-about-town, as his running mate for city council president...
...that plague rose fanciers, disease-bearing mosquitoes, beetles that spread Dutch elm disease, in sects that devour crops. As a farmer's helper, pesticides increase crop yields, hence profits. But poison is blind. Loosed annually by the ton from planes, boats, trucks, tractors and handy spray cans, it cannot isolate its target. Since Rachel Carson exposed the pesticides' threat seven years ago, in Silent Spring, evidence of the chemicals' pernicious effects on birds, plants, fish, animals and occasionally man has continued to grow. Yet little in the way of effective control has been attempted- until...
...meeting with Nixon: "President Nixon appears to be determined to exert more pressure on the Israelis than was perhaps true of previous administrations. He wants peace in the Middle East that is just for all sides, and you cannot get it if you blindly support one nation over the others...
...prospects for peace: "Time is running out because frustrations are building, and so are dangerous incidents in the area. I believe we have our last chance now to realize a settlement. But we cannot dally. Perhaps we still have a few months or a bit more time than that-but not much more before it will be almost impossible to solve things peacefully...