Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Dean Rusk predicted that it would be held some time this week). The other was the shape of the negotiating table. Hanoi wanted a square one, which would give the N.L.F. a side to itself. As the Communists see it, that arrangement would enhance the guerrillas' claim to independent status. The Allies apparently see it the same way. They want two rectangular tables, with the U.S. and South Viet Nam seated at one, and North Viet Nam and the N.L.F. at the other, to prevent the guerrillas from getting a whole side of a table to themselves...
There are, to be sure, difficulties as well. The family allowance would still not take care of the childless poor, while the negative income tax could not really be administered, as its proponents sometimes claim, with only a small addition to the staff of the Internal Revenue Service. For one thing, money would have to be handed out monthly or weekly, a big chore that would cause rather substantial changes in the IRS bureaucracy. The negative income tax would have a further practical drawback. Middle-income workers would not benefit at all, as they would with family allowances, and they...
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, more influential in the Arab world than ever be cause of its arms shipments, has staked its own claim to the use of the Mediterranean for its expanding navy, sharply increasing the danger of a direct U.S.-Russian confrontation on the high seas should a new Middle East war break...
...guerrillas' disadvantage, the bleak, rocky West Bank, where they target most of their operations, does not provide good cover, and the Israelis are a formidably efficient enemy. They claim to have killed or captured 2,650 fedayeen and tend to dismiss them as amateurs. "We cannot dignify them with the name guerrilla or commando," says an Israeli officer. "The Arabs who cross over show no daring. In that respect, they are nowhere near Viet Cong standards." The Israelis do respect Arafat, however. Their intelligence network has twice reported him on Israeli soil, and twice he escaped a dragnet. "Anyone...
...specific general political position which comes very close to a doctrinal orthodoxy. The rationale for such a position is not generated inside the academic world from academic considerations, but would be imposed upon it from without by a particular politically committed group. To be sure, this group claims moral sanction for its position, but so do other, differing groups claim moral sanction for their own positions...