Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford needs a vision, America needs a vision, of a world in which our claim to "vital national security interests" in Indochina will be thought to be as ridiculous as China claiming the same in Latin America. We need a vision of a world in which we can trust the diversity of other peoples, and refrain from our childish and futile attempts to buy friendship with weapons. Luther Lewis Davis, Calif...
Though Thieu carefully described his resignation as voluntary, it was virtually his only choice, even without the push from Washington. In the days leading up to his announcement, Communist troops had made a mockery of any claim that Saigon could yet mobilize a vigorous defense. The badly battered ARVN 18th Division put up a heroic stand at the provincial capital of Xuan Loc, 40 miles northeast of Saigon, but a formidable force of three North Vietnamese divisions, after taking some severe casualties from government air strikes, simply wore them down. When the exhausted remnants of Xuan Loc's defenders straggled...
Those who advocate the changes, including R. Jerrold Gibson '51, Harvard's director of student loans, claim that their recommendations will establish some sorely needed coordination in the nation's loan program...
Pathologists testifying for the defense, however, unanimously refuted the claim...
...purpose was to provide decent housing at a decent price. The most important objections to rent control are that the original housing crunch no longer exists; that the short-term benefits of lower rents are being sacrificed to the long-range effects of reduced maintenance. Rent control's proponents claim that it has had no detrimental effect on the quality of the housing stock and that the original housing shortage continues. Predictably, the Harbridge House report sticks to the latter line while the Sternlieb report follows the former. Only a sharply analytical look at the information provided in both reports...