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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions are vital, but the answers are hard to come by. Though the Communists are fully aware of the domestic pressures in the U.S. to settle the war, and try to manipulate American public opinion to their own advantage, the American negotiators have only the scantiest information about the mood of North Viet Nam or how that mood might affect the Communists' bargaining position. About all that U.S. policymakers can do is ponder the clues that slip out of Ho Chi Minh's secretive land by means of foreign visitors, an occasional defector, and the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: Trying to Read Ho | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Tough Facade. Whether such differences actually exist or not, the regime is still putting up a tough facade. In a meeting with his military leaders, Ho Chi Minh last week declared that peace will come "only when all American aggressor troops are completely swept out of our country and the puppet traitors are overthrown." Added Ho: "I look forward to hearing of great and glorious new victories against the enemy." It is bellicose talk, but no American analyst could say for certain whether Ho really meant it-or whether it was only rhetoric intended to strengthen the Communists' bargaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: Trying to Read Ho | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...yourself this: With Teddy Kennedy against the ABM, could a "study" by Weisner and Chayes have come out FOR it? Or ask yourself this: Was any "study" necessary to get the right answers from Professors so devoted that, in ten years, they have never differed from any Kennedy ion any issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAND-ME-DOWNS | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

This tension comes partly from the changing economic situation of Wales, the decline of labor in coal-mining. Partly, too, change and newness come from the story's being told through the eyes of a small boy, to whom everything is new and personal. But the film's simultaneous fragility and dynamism work only because Ford's method so perfectly integrates these sources of tension. The way he stylizes his characters through their sentiments. That Ford manages to create a society from action so charged with individual character, so devoid of fixed habit, and that he manages t make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Green Was My Valley | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

...committee says it is not affiliated with SDS although several SDS members are on it. "We are not an SDS group and we are not a non-SDS group," Keyssar said. Most SDS members do not come to commencement and SDS itself does not plan any formal action for commencement, the group said

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Seniors From Graduation Protest Plan | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

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