Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question confronting Clifford and every other top policymaker from the President on down is whether to commit scores of thousands of additional troops to Viet Nam to regain the momentum lost when the Communists launched their Tet offensive in January. U.S. commanders are pleading for 100,000 to 200,000 more troops beyond the 525,000 already authorized. Seven or eight separate plans are under study at the Pentagon, all calling for sizable reinforcements and all entailing substantial political risks for the President...
...Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe as long as it's feasible-but we don't plan to commit academic suicide...
Wallace has also increased his respectability by his frequent appearances at luncheons for business and professional men. His speeches are usually interrupted by table-thumping applause, and his attacks on the "bearded intellectual morons" who commit treason when they denounce the war in Vietnam often bring the cheering community leaders to their feet...
Attitudes at home set more stringent limits as a rising number of Americans demand to know why they must commit their strength on distant frontiers. They see a diminishing threat to their security as world Communism splits into opposing camps. They relax as the U.S. dialogue with Russia mellows; they worry less about a Red China hobbled by internal dissension. By their insistent questions they force the Administration to search for a set of priorities, to think twice before it exercises U.S. power...
...referendum to GSA members because they know graduate students as a whole would not support the referendum," he charges. "Now only the most conservative element among the graduate students, those who live in the campus dorms and pay $2.50 a year to attend the sherry parties, can vote to commit the Council...