Word: communistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon's decision to begin troop withdrawals, there is a concept for disengaging the U.S. from the war. It is more than a vision, but less than a blueprint. It is flexible, ready to be modified with the shift of events. What Nixon does next depends largely on the Communist response to his announcement last week at Midway. While there are perils m the choice he made, it may prove to be a significant step toward ending the longest war in American history
Nixon therefore devised an intricate strategy directed at Hanoi and the National Liberation Front. By meeting with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu and spelling out the common ground between Washington and Saigon, he tried to underline the solidarity of the two governments in the face of Communist efforts to divide and conquer. In giving more combat responsibility to the South Vietnamese, Nixon advertised U.S. confidence?such as it is?in the combat readiness of Saigon's forces. He aims to convince the Communists that they must negotiate with Thieu and not hold out in the expectation...
...shade behind De Gaulle's showing in his first-round presidential campaign in 1965, and he ran first in all but one of France's 95 metropolitan departments. Poher's 23.21% of the tally made him a distant second with barely half as many votes. Communist Jacques Duclos, who got only one-third as many votes as Poher in early campaign polls, finished up just two points behind him, and actually beat the Interim President in one out of every three departments...
Still another factor was the remarkable popularity of Communist Jacques Duclos, a 72-year-old roly-poly extravert who looks as though he had never given up his youthful job as a pâtissier. Although he serves as the party's chief propagandist, Duclos wisely concentrated on giving Communism a friendly face and good one-liners-including the name of his dog, Pompon, after his favorite political opponent. Asked why his party disavowed the militant New Left, whom Frenchmen have nicknamed Gauchos, Duclos replied: "Gauchos, but they're American!" He seldom lost the chance to rumble mechanically...
...Crisis, 1959); of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn. Wealthy by birth, well placed in banking, Warburg had every reason to support the established order. Instead, he became an articulate advocate of new, often radical political maneuvers, assailing such elements of U.S. policy as the refusal to seat Communist China in the U.N., and America's stress on military rather than socioeconomic solutions to the cold...