Word: capitulationism
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What is especially frightening, as the bombing escalates beyond what was once plausible, are unattributed comments by "American officials" that the bombing would be reduced, but not halted entirely, even if Hanoi were willing to discuss terms of a settlement. Making the bombing an element of our bargaining posture promises...
MICHAEL L. WALZER, associate professor of Government: I want to say first that we all welcome the bombing pause, if that's what it is, and hope, in the absence of all information, for the best. But many of us, I'm afraid, don't expect the best, and doubt...
Idealistic Aide. William C. Bullitt, now 75, at the end of World War I was an idealistic young State Department aide whose distinguished diplomatic career as Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Soviet Russia and France still lay in the future. He served briefly on Wilson's peace commission...
Wilson found it difficult "to maintain friendly relations with men of superior intellect or position," write the authors. Why? They were father figures against whom he could vent the repressed hostility toward his own father, which, as any amateur Freudian knows, lurked behind the ostentatious affection. "Wilson's immoderate...
Like many another woman before her, Jacqueline Kennedy last week got her way by stubbornly insisting on her rights. In her reluctant but aggressive battle to prevent publication of numerous personally embarrassing passages in Manchester's The Death of a President, she scored a victory over Look magazine, which...