Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naked power struggle with his "bourgeois" enemies is becoming so turbulent, in fact, that it is causing mounting concern among the countries around the Asian periphery. Communist North Korea had been carefully suppressing the news from China, lest its own youth catch the Red Guard fever. But last week it lashed out against Red Guard posters that reported a plot to overthrow the North Korean government. Cried Pyongyang: "An intolerable slander." Japan is disillusioned about its recent new moves toward Red China and fretful about its carefully cultivated and growing trade with the Chinese. Pakistan, which has beea edging toward...
Podgorny made a few ritualistic cracks about the U.S. in Viet Nam, and Italian President Giuseppe Saragat riposted gently that everyone should seek "mutual understanding." But there were few differences about trade, in which Italy is already heavily involved with the Soviet Union. The Italians did express some concern over their persistent trade deficit with Russia, which ran close to $100 million in 1966 as a result of large imports of Russian crude oil. Italy exported some $80 million (mainly in textiles and machinery) to Russia last year and intends to see that those figures rise as rapidly as possible...
...your talk to the student interns last summer, as on other occasions, you have recognized and discussed problems that have been troubling members of our generation. We have been grateful for your concern and encouraged by your invitation to express some of our thoughts...
There is considerable concern about apparent contradictions in the American position on certain points basic to any efforts to negotiate a settlement. High Government officials reiterate our eagerness to negotiate "unconditionally," but we remain unclear about our willingness to accept full participation by the Vietcong as an independent party to negotiations...
Here and elsewhere, there is very considerable doubt whether this country's vital interests are sufficiently threatened to justify our increasing commitment in Vietnam. There is concern, as the student leaders accurately reported, that we may be minimizing the possibility of a viable, independent South Vietnam with our present policy of bombs and destruction. And there is more doubt--the student leaders understand this aspect--about the Administration's integrity in explaining the war to the American people...