Word: comely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...disengagements could also come through secret, direct agreement in the Paris peace talks. The only conditions that the U.S. will absolutely insist on there are guarantees that North Vietnamese troops will depart at approximately the same rate as its own, and assurance that the present Saigon government has the facilities to maintain its own security. Hanoi has expressed willingness to negotiatevftn the first condition, but adamantly insists that the U.S. must reach a separate accord with the National Liberation Front on the second?the better to emphasize the Front's legitimacy. At stake is the eventual future of a South...
...much larger questions about the difficulty of trying to engineer another country's security or national unity. One U.S. officer recently described his method of helping to pacify Vietnamese villages as one of "jumping into bed with the district chief"?which pretty well sums up how many Americans come on in the eyes of the peasants. Most of all, dissenters object to the warm breath of the U.S. "presence" in the program. "It is hard to give the illusion of sovereignty," says Rand Corporation Anthropologist Gerald Hickey, who has been in Viet Nam since 1956. "We continue with...
...formal tit-for-tat agreement with Hanoi. Such critics of Nixon's seeming tough stance tend to overlook the fact that the President, after all, has reacted quite mildly to the renewed offensive. Though they may include policymakers within Nixon's inner circle, the President's detractors come from the Johnson Administration, notably former Defense Secretary Clark W. Clifford and Ambassador Averell Harriman. They are believed to view the current Communist offensive as a direct and understandable, if not justified, response to the unabated allied military pressure during the September-to-January lull. They fault the U.S. for failing...
...schools are to survive, money must come from somewhere else-which means federal or state aid. Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Board of Education v. Allen that states could supply textbooks for purely secular subjects (science, mathematics, language) to nonpublic schools, and parochial-school educators hope that the decision eventually may be expanded to allow public aid to parochial-school students for other costs, such as faculty and plant, as well. This approach, based on the rationale of "child benefit," is now being considered by several states...
...endangered" list grows year by year, many additions continue to come from animals heading toward extinction. Names that disappear from the list are sometimes the names of species that have finally been killed off. Yet sometimes a name comes off the list because the animal is making a comeback. One example: the grizzly bear, once thought doomed, now boasts a stable U.S. population of about...